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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents
Ha Trong Nguyen; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media...
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Causal impact of physical activity on child health and development
Ha Trong Nguyen; Christian, Hayley; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health or developmental outcome. This paper exploits exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174497
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Fertility and population policy
Ouedraogo, Abdoulaye; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Yang, Jingjing - 2018
There have been significant changes in both the fertility rates and fertility perception since 1970s. In this paper, we examine the relationship between government policies towards fertility and the fertility trends. Total fertility rate, defined as the number of children per woman, is used as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129952
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The power of the government : China's family planning leading group and the fertility decline since 1970
Chen, Yi; Huang, Yingfei - 2018 - Current Draft: April 2018
China introduced its world-famous One-Child Policy in 1979. However, its fertility appears to have declined even faster in the early 1970s than it did after 1979. In this study, we highlight the importance of the Family Planning Leading Group in understanding the fertility decline since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131523
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The impact of weather on time allocation to physical activity and sleep of child-parent dyads
Ha Trong Nguyen; Christian, Hayley; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2021
This study explores the differential impact of weather on time allocation to physical activity and sleep by children and their parents. We use nationally representative data with time use indicators objectively measured on multiple occasions for more than 1,100 child-parent pairs, coupled with...
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Job location decisions and the effect of children on the employment gender gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for …
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Longer school schedules, childcare and the quality of mothers' employment : evidence from school reform in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Lauer, Catalina; … - 2020
Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the causal...
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Intergenerational income mobility and income taxation
Kurnaz, Musab; Soytas, Mehmet A. - 2019
We study the impact of income taxation on intergenerational income correlation. We estimate a life cycle dynastic model and conduct counterfactual analysis to observe the effects of various tax regimes. Compared to a no tax environment, a flat tax regime reduces the correlation only by one...
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Motherhood, migration, and self-employment of college graduates
Cai, Zhengyu; Stephens, Heather M.; Winters, John V. - 2019
force decisions. Using American Community Survey microdata, we examine how birth-place residence, a proxy for access to … appears that, in response to fewer childcare options, self-employed mothers away from their birth-place work fewer hours …, while self-employed mothers residing in their birth place are able to work more hours per week. …
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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements : the role of time investments
Ha Trong Nguyen; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020
Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...
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