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This paper examines how child maltreatment is affected by the economic circumstances of parents. 'Child maltreatment … structure, welfare benefits, and child maltreatment. Welfare programs affect the incentives of women and men to work and to live …, welfare reforms can be expected to affect the incidence of child maltreatment. Although is too early to accurately determine …
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identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …
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identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …
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We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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We provide new estimates of the impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) in Ethiopia on child …
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We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090570
associated with a reduction in excess female child mortality, or a reduction in son preference …
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sites to more accurately measure a child's war exposure. War-exposed children in both countries have lower height-for-age Z …
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The practice of adopting adults, even if one has biological children, makes Japanese family firms unusually competitive. Our nearly population-wide panel of postwar listed nonfinancial firms shows inherited family firms more important in postwar Japan than generally realized, and also performing...
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We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children generally gain from starting school one year later and the...
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