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Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio - 2010
This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different stages of childhood. We estimate the elasticity of substitution between investments in one period and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148325
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Parental Job Loss and Children’s Health : Ten Years after the Massive Layoff of the SOEs’ Workers in China
Liu, Hong - 2011
Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state … investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122166
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Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children : Evidence from Urban China
Mu, Ren - 2014
sector to the non-state sector in urban China as a quasi-experiment to analyze the intergenerational impact of social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065312
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Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply : Evidence from Rural China
Li, Hongbin - 2015
This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015013
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Risk Aversion and Son Preference : Experimental Evidence from Chinese Twin Parents
Chew, Soo Hong - 2017
We study the role of risk aversion underlying son preference in patriarchal societies, where sons serve as better insurance for old-age support than daughters. The implications of an insurance motive on son preference are two-fold. First, prior to the birth of their children, more risk-averse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963852
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Parental Education and Wages : Evidence from China
Feng, Shuaizhang - 2009
Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158675
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Elder Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children : Evidence from Rural China
Giles, John - 2006
families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783694
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Does Daughter Deficit Promote Parental Substance Use? Longitudinal Evidence on Smoking from Rural China
Chen, Xi - 2017
China and some other Asian countries have experienced skewed sex ratios, triggering intense competition and pressure in … the marriage market. Meanwhile, China has more smokers than any other country, with half of men smoke while few women … market in China – affects their fathers' smoking behavior. We utilize two household longitudinal surveys as well as a random …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952611
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Parental Migration Decisions and Child Health Outcomes : Evidence from China
Lin, Carl - 2018
associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906487
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The Effect of Parental Educational Expectations on Adolescent Subjective Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Perceived Academic Pressure : Longitudinal Evidence for China
Lu, Haiyang - 2019
China Education Panel Survey, we investigate PEE's causal impact on adolescent subjective well-being (SWB) and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857702