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, then the effect of shocks at age 1-16 is estimated for 600,000 Norwegian children. The effect of permanent shocks declines …
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controls. Using the fact that the rural tax reform implemented since 2000 created an exogenous variation in family income …
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objectives of higher employment and lower poverty levels.In this paper we present a simulation exercise to examine labour supply … implications of a diverse set of possible reforms to the main elements of tax and benefit support of families with children. We set … increasing the potential of in-work support to alleviate poverty …
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In this paper we utilize a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of …
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This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
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child mental health evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists for mental health problems, test whether … the different reports for the estimated income gradient. We find that respondents frequently evaluate children differently …
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While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address this deficit by analysing the relationship between...
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We study the impact of restricting child-related social assistance to the first two children in the family on the … fertility of third and subsequent births. As of April 2017, all third and subsequent born children to low-income families in the … withdraw income from low-income families, with potential implications for child poverty …
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This paper investigates the impact of income shocks and bride price on early marriage in Turkey. The practice of bride-price, still vivid in many regions of the country, may provide incentives for parents to marry their daughter earlier, when faced with a negative income shock. In addition,...
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after the New Year. Using data from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Children … birth timing. We show that while children born in December have a weight disadvantage of 0.17 pounds at birth compared to …
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