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The impact of exposure to missionaries on the English language proficiency and earnings of immigrants in the USA
Larsen, Nicholas; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019
/Methodology/Approach: This study uses the pooled files of the American Community Survey (2005-09). To estimate the relationship between the …
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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023
return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage …) estimates internal rates of return from high school and college/university schooling, primarily for native-born white men, but … also for other demographic groups. The first regression-based approach is the development of the schooling …
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Informal Iinstitution meets child development : clan culture and child labor in China
Tang, Can; Zhao, Zhong - 2022
Using a national representative sample, the China Family Panel Studies, this paper explores the influences of clan culture, a hallmark of Chinese cultural history, on the prevalence of child labor in China. We find that clan culture significantly reduces the incidence of child labor and working...
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Age effects in education : a double disadvantage for second-generation immigrant children
Abatemarco, Antonio; Cavallo, Mariagrazia; Marino, … - 2021
that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417618
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Adverse childhood circumstances and cognitive function in middle- aged and older Chinese adults : lower level or faster decline?
Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2021
Life History Survey (2014), we find that key domains of childhood circumstances, including family socioeconomic status (SES …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493904
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Early life environments and frailty in old age among Chinese older adults
Li, Yaxi; Xue, Qian-Li; Odden, Michelle C.; Chen, Xi; … - 2020
Exposures in childhood and adolescence may impact the development of diseases and symptoms in late life. However, evidence from low- and middle- income countries is scarce. In this study, we examined the association of early life risk factors with frailty among older adults using a large,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149131
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Will you marry me ... if our children are healthy? : the impact of maternal age and the associated risk of having a child with health problems on family structure
Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2019
Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the …
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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
Adult Arrival parents and their Child Arrival children. We find, relative to the Family Class, the Adult Arrivals in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131428
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Sex workers' self-reported physical and mental health in Greece : a repeated cross-sectional study in 2009, 2013 and 2019
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
In Greece, given the precarious nature of the sex work industry, sex workers health and wellbeing is of concern. However, relevant research remains limited. This study examined whether sex workers' self-reported physical and mental health deteriorated across time points during the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610882
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The world's oldest profession? : employment-age profiles from the transactional sex market
Wilson, Nicholas - 2017
Standard labor market models predict that the likelihood of employment increases, hours worked increase, and individuals transition from less-skilled and temporary jobs to more skilled and more stable employment as they age. I examine the association between age and transactional sex work using...
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