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This paper finds declining consumption expenditure between paydays, for a typical household in the working population …
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In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by “lifestyle” choices; that is, a set of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free choice. The main underlying assumption is that...
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In this paper, we study the effects of extra-school activities on children's non-cognitive development, using data from … the Millennium Cohort Study (UK) and focusing on children aged 7-11 years old. We classify the time spent out of school … data.Results show the beneficial effects on children's behaviour of sports, school-related activities, time with parents …
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In this paper, we investigate the response of female lone parents to two reforms to the welfare system in Australia. We look at changes to both hours and participation and focus on the channels of adjustment, in particular the role of job changes for adjustment in hours. We highlight the...
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This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...
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This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …
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children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies …
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degree of crowding in the household. The evidence suggests that family size affected the health of children through its … of children, as the quality-quantity trade-off would suggest. We use microdata from a unique survey from 1930s Britain to … analyze the relationship between the standardized heights of children and the number of children in the family. Our results …
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In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from …
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Immigrant children in the US tend to perform worse in reading, mathematics, and science compared to native children … linked to age at arrival, and that migrant children arrive at different ages from different countries of origin. In … particular, I instrument English proficiency by comparing children from English-speaking countries to children from non …
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