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Child Welfare and Old-Age Security in Female Headed Households in Tanzania

Seebens, Holger - 2009

This paper is concerned with patterns of expenditure and child welfare among female headed (FHH) and male headed households (MHH) in Tanzania as well as with the underlying cause of potentially different patterns. I estimate semiparametric Engel curves to investigate household expenditure...

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Inequality in Vietnamese Urban-Rural Living Standards, 1993-2006

Le, Huong - 2010

Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban-rural expenditure inequality. Urban-rural inequality in Vietnam increased dramatically from 1993 to 1998, and peaked in 2002 before reducing slightly in 2004, and significantly in...

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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 …

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Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada

Corak, Miles - 2010

This comparative study of the relationship between family economic background and adult outcomes in the United States … the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of …

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Escaping from Hunger Before WW1 : Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century

Gazeley, Ian - 2017

We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …

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The Unknown Immigration : Incentives and Family Composition in Inter-Country Adoptions to the United States

Lozano, Fernando A. - 2010

Children adopted from abroad are an immigrant group about which little is known. According to the U.S. Census more than one and a half million children living in the U.S. are adopted, with fifteen percent of them born abroad. In fact more than twenty thousand adopted orphans from abroad enter...

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Religion, Human Capital Investments and the Family in the United States

Lehrer, Evelyn L. - 2009

, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, family size and employment. It also identifies gaps in our knowledge, and suggests agenda items …

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The Effect of Family Structure on Parents' Child Care Time in the United States and the United Kingdom

Kalenkoski, Charlene M. - 2006

estimate the effect of family structure on the time mothers and fathers spend on primary and passive child care and on market … work, using a system of correlated Tobit equations and family structure equations. Estimates from these models indicate …

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The Effect of Family Separation and Reunification on the Educational Success of Immigrant Children in the United States

Gindling, T. H. - 2010

For many immigrants, especially those from Central America and Mexico, it is common for a mother or father (or both) to migrate to the United States and leave their children behind. Then, after the parent(s) have achieved some degree of stability in the United States, the children follow. Using...

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Marital Instability in the United States : Trends, Driving Forces, and Implications for Children

Lehrer, Evelyn L. - 2017

This paper surveys some of the main strands in the recent literature on the economics of divorce, with a focus on U.S. studies. We begin with a discussion of changes over time in the divorce rate and the widening gap in marital instability by socioeconomic status. We review the role of age at...

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