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The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind : Estimation in Presence of Intra-Household Selection of Migrants

Murard, Elie - 2019

to whether or not send a migrant. Yet, the subsequent selection of which family members migrate and which stay behind …

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Sons or Daughters? The Impact of Children's Migration on the Health and Well-Being of Parents Left Behind

Wahba, Jackline - 2019

We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel and exogenous variation in children's astrological...

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Consumption and Leisure : The Welfare Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind

Murard, Elie - 2016

This paper examines the effect of international migration on the welfare of family members left behind at the origin …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980283

Family Size, Sibling Rivalry and Migration : Evidence from Mexico

Bratti, Massimiliano - 2017

This paper examines the causal effects of family size and demographic structure on offspring's international migration … migration. The positive correlation between sibship size and migration disappears when endogeneity of family size is addressed … across children within the family. Older siblings, especially firstborn males, are more likely to migrate, while having more …

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Female Brain Drains and Women's Rights Gaps : A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows

Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2014

In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the...

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Women and Migration

Antman, Francisca - 2018

While scholars have long studied the economics of migration, increasing waves of international and regional migration around the world have placed greater focus on the varied impacts of migration in recent years. Critical to this line of research is an examination of the important role that...

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Taxing Childcare : Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children

Gathmann, Christina - 2012

older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members …

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Gender Differences in Sickness Absence and the Gender Division of Family Responsibilities

Angelov, Nikolay - 2013

This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and long-term effects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We find that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by...

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Hope for the Family : The Effects of College Costs on Maternal Labor Supply

Braga, Breno - 2020

We examine the effects of college costs on the labor supply of mothers. Exploiting changes in college costs after the roll-out of nine generous state merit aid programs from 1993 to 2004, we analyze the difference in the labor supply of mothers before and after these programs were implemented....

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The Effects of Divorce Risk on the Labour Supply of Married Couples

Papps, Kerry L. - 2006

This paper presents a model of lifetime utility maximisation in which expectations of future marital transitions play a role in the determination of work hours. Married people with spouses who earn more are predicted to devote additional time to the labour market when they are confronted with a...

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