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This chapter provides a narrative review of the literature relating socioeconomic circumstances early in life to mental health and well-being later in life. It starts by highlighting the various contributions focusing on associations, then moves on to the literature attempting to identify causal...
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fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children’s economic preferences …
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In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB …) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children …
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Socio- Economic Survey (HSES) to examine the correlation between the presence of children of different age categories in a … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …
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covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that …
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This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …
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Social cohesion and labor mobility both have the same objective and do not need to be in conflict. They are about cooperating among individuals and societies in order to survive and prosper. Social cohesion can benefit from labour mobility: Labour mobility is economically beneficial for migrants...
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The Greek crisis was the deepest and longest ever recorded in an OECD country in the postwar period. Output declined by over a quarter and disposable income by more than 40%, while the unemployment rate exceeded 27%. The paper explores the effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of...
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escape poverty than households on average, but FHHs without children are most likely to do so. While more children are …
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