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Are you puffing your children's future away? : energy poverty and childhood exposure to passive smoking
Prakash, Kushneel; Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Smyth, Russell - 2022
We examine whether having a parent who smoked during one's childhood or adolescence increases the probability of being in energy poverty in adulthood. We find that people who had a parent who smoked when they were young are 0.8 to 1.4 percentage points more likely to be in energy poverty later...
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Why do parents under invest in their children's education? : evidence from China
Wang, Jiyuan; Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola - 2022
In this paper we study whether the presence of binding liquidity constraints and the existence of fixed costs can explain the underinvestment of parents in their children's human capital. We first incorporate these two potential mechanisms into the theoretical model of Raut & Tran (2005) and...
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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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Communication barriers and infant health : intergenerational effects of randomly allocating refugees across language regions
Auer, Daniel; Kunz, Johannes - 2021
This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural …
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
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Changing patterns of son preference and fertility in Pakistan
Javed, Muhammad Rashid; Mughal, Mazhar - 2021
Using data from two representative Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine the change in son preference over the past three decades and its effects on Pakistani women's fertility. We analyse a number of indicators and employ different empirical methods to come up with strong and persistent...
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Birth order effects, parenting style, and son preference
Kim, Jun Hyung; Wang, Shaoda - 2021
While it is well known that there are systematic birth order effects on life cycle outcomes, there is less consensus about underlying channels and mechanisms of birth order effects. We ftnd negative birth order effects among Chinese adolescents, favoring earlier-born children within household in...
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Socioeconomic conditions in childhood and mental health later in life
Angelini, Viola; Mierau, Jochen O.; Viluma, Laura - 2021
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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Weather shock, agricultural productivity and infant health : a tale of environmental injustice
Pal, Soumya - 2021
. Based on it, we designed the agriculture-household model, which predicts that health outcomes of child is dependent on … season before the conception of child to eliminate the confounding effect of direct impact due to extreme weather conditions …. We find that weather shocks in cropping season, increases the likelihood of child mortality, low birth weight, and birth …
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Does paid family leave save infant lives? : evidence from United States
Chen, Feng - 2021
One goal of the paid family leave (PFL) is to help working mothers balance their careers and family responsibilities and hence improve the well-being of their infants. However, most studies of PFL on early childhood outcomes have been based on the analyses of surviving infants. If PFL reduces...
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