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Do skewed sex ratios among children promote parental smoking? : longitudinal evidence from rural China

Chen, Xi - 2017

China and some other Asian countries have experienced skewed sex ratios, triggering intense competition and pressure in the marriage market. Meanwhile, China has more smokers than any other country, with half of men smoke while few women smoke. Men are the major income earners in most Chinese...

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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018

Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences are...

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Family matters: involuntary parental unemployment during childhood and subjective wellbeing later in life

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris N. - 2018

We are the first to examine how parental unemployment experienced during early-, mid- and late-childhood affects adult life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find that parental unemployment induced by plant closures and experienced during early (0-5 years) and late (11-15...

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The long-lasting effects of family and childhood on adult wellbeing : evidence from British cohort data

Fleche, Sarah; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2018 - This version: February 2018

To what extent do childhood experiences continue to affect adult wellbeing over the life course? Previous work on this link has been carried out either at one particular adult age or for some average over adulthood. We here use two British birth-cohort datasets (the 1958 NCDS and the 1970 BCS)...

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Immigrant category of admission and the earnings of adults and children : how far does the apple fall?

Warman, Casey; Webb, Matthew; Worswick, Christopher - 2018

Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and the second generation have on average integrated very...

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Improving children health and cognition : evidence from school-based nutrition intervention in India

Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018

to public primary schools to prepare mid-day meal in one of the poorest regions of India. The DFS treatment had … effects, we find that treatment had statistically significant gains in anemia and test scores among children with higher … treatment compliance. We further estimate that the intervention was very cost effective and can potentially be scaled up without …

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And thou shalt honor : children's caregiving, work and religion

Mazzotta, Fernanda; Bettio, Francesca; Zigante, Valentina - 2018 - draft, March 2018

In this paper we take a fresh look at the magnitude of the trade-off between caring informally for a parent and paid work. We adopt a simultaneous approach with a primary focus on how hours of care are influenced by hours of work rather than the other way round. We also investigate the role that...

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Maternal education and childhood immunization in Turkey

Özer, Mustafa; Fidrmuc, Jan; Eryurt, Mehmet Ali - 2017

We study the causal effect of maternal education on childhood immunization rates. We use the Compulsory Education Law (CEL) of 1997, and the differentiation in its implementation across regions, as instruments for schooling of young mothers in Turkey. The CEL increased the compulsory years of...

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The chips are down : the influence of family on children's trust formation

Giulietti, Corrado; Rettore, Enrico; Tonini, Sara - 2017

Understanding the formation of trust at the individual level is a key issue given the impact that it has been recognized to have on economic development. Theoretical work highlights the role of the transmission of values such as trust from parents to their children. Attempts to empirically...

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The implicit costs of motherhood over the lifecycle : cross-cohort evidence from administrative longitudinal data

Neumeier, Christian; Sørensen, Todd A.; Webber, Douglas A. - 2017 - This draft: February 14, 2017

The explicit costs of raising a child have grown over the past several decades. Less well understood are the implicit costs of having a child, and how they have changed over time. In this paper we use longitudinal administrative data from over 70,000 individuals in the Synthetic SIPP Beta to...

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