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To what extent do childhood experiences continue to affect adult wellbeing over the life course? Previous work on this link has been carried out either at one particular adult age or for some average over adulthood. We here use two British birth-cohort datasets (the 1958 NCDS and the 1970 BCS)...
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Life History Survey (2014), we find that key domains of childhood circumstances, including family socioeconomic status (SES …
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were identified, including childhood health, family financial status, and regional differences. The conditional inference …
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the impact of the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) on the health of older adults to perform a meta-analysis and discuss …
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Socio- Economic Survey (HSES) to examine the correlation between the presence of children of different age categories in a … family and female employment in Mongolia in 2016. We examine the availability of childcare, social norms and attitudes … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the …
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Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …
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children's cognitive outcomes. My identification strategy exploits geographical differences in terms of exposure to the program … children. In turn, the effect is only significant for mother with negative effect on the interaction between mother and … children, which means that there is a substitution effect, mother use this time to do something else. These findings call for …
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This paper investigates the impact of attending early childcare on second generation immigrant children's cognitive … attendance differs between native and immigrant children. Although we find no effects for Italian children, our estimates show a … positive and significant effect on literacy test scores for immigrant children of low educated mothers, which suggests that …
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In this paper we take a fresh look at the magnitude of the trade-off between caring informally for a parent and paid work. We adopt a simultaneous approach with a primary focus on how hours of care are influenced by hours of work rather than the other way round. We also investigate the role that...
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Bengal in 2013 on children’s early enrollment in schools and subsequent test scores. Using double difference, triple …. Analyzing the test scores, we find that after the program's introduction, both math and reading scores of treated children did …
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