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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 related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very …
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Linguistic traits and human capital formation
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020
the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages … predominantly to sex-based grammatical gender. …
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
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Training, human capital, and gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance
Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry - 2019
non-cognitive skills, with gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance in Africa. We have found that while financial …
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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households
Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018
We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants' households and that it caused lower probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts...
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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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A political economy and voicing model of the institutional impact of brain drain, human capital, inequality and country size
Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice W. - 2021
Brain drain BD, human capital h, and inequality's institutional impact is examined in a model where a rent-seeking elite taxes residents and voicing affects the likelihood of regime change. We find that BD and h's impact on institutional quality (Q) are as follows: i) Q is a U-shaped function of...
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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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On immigration and native entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to invest in new skills. Immigrants whose human capitalis not immediately transferable to the host country face lower opportunity costs ofinvesting in new skills or methods and will be...
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The economic implications of training for firm performance
Martins, Pedro S. - 2022
This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...
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