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Daughters, savings and household finances

Wen, Xin; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano - 2024

We explore the link between child gender and household financial decisions within a cultural environment that strongly favours having a son. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we find that the presence of a daughter is associated with a lower saving rate, consistent with...

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The (big) role of family constellations in return migration and transnationalism

Kopliku Dema, Bresena; Drishti, Elvisa - 2022

Purpose: The Albanian migration has always reflected a family character, be that before 1945 when Albania was not yet … of the family has been very important in making decisions regarding migration and answering questions from why to how to … family and kinship on decisions regarding return migration, the re-adjustment process, remigration or transnational life …

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Re-thinking immigrant investment funds

Gamlen, Alan John; Kutarna, Chris; Monk, Ashby H. B. - 2017

The idea of selling membership into society is not new, but it has taken on new life with the recent proliferation globally of Immigrant Investor Programs (IIPs). These programs involve the sale of national membership privileges to wealthy foreigners. They are justified by attractive policy...

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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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Social rejection, family acceptance, economic recession and physical and mental health of sexual minorities

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

, family acceptance, and economic conditions bear an association with self-rated physical and mental health of sexual … minorities. Social rejection bears a negative association with physical and mental health. Family acceptance shares a positive …

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Does it pay to say "I do"? : marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU

Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2021

We analyse the different fiscal treatment of married and cohabiting couples across all EU Member States using microsimulation methods. Our paper highlights important differences across EU countries' tax-benefit systems, where seven countries show substantial bonuses for married couples and four...

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Growing up together: sibling correlation, parental influence, and intergenerational educational mobility in developing countries

Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Han, … - 2022 - This version: July 6, 2022, preliminary draft

unobserved family, community, and school factors shared by siblings when growing up together. The estimates suggest that sibling …

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Intergenerational consequences of maternal domestic violence : effect on nutritional status of children

Pakrashi, Debayan; Saha, Sarani - 2020 - Updated: February 2020

children aged below five years. Using detailed dataset from the current and fourth round of the National Family Health Survey …

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Consequences of war : Japan's demographic transition and the marriage market

Ogasawara, Kota; Komura, Mizuki - 2021

presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio …

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Women at work in the pre-civil war United States : an analysis of unreported family workers

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2020

older) who were likely providing informal and unenumerated labor for market production in support of a family business, that … is, unreported family workers. These individuals are identified as not having a reported occupation, but are likely to be … working on the basis of the self-employment occupation of other relatives in their households. Family workers are classified …

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