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Child Socio-Emotional Skills : The Role of Parental Inputs
Moroni, Gloria - 2019
Informed by the psychological literature and our empirical evidence we provide new insights into the technology of socio-emotional skill formation in middle childhood. In line with economic evidence, increasing parental inputs that enrich the child home environment and reduce stress has larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867158
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Parental Inputs and Socio-Economic Gaps in Early Child Development
Macmillan, Lindsey - 2019
By the time children start school, socio-economic gaps are evident in child skills. We document a causal effect of a reform to mothers' education on her child's skills and use mediation analysis to explore the role of parental inputs as mechanisms. The reform shifted mothers' education from no,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858495
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Trust, Child Care Technology Choice and Female Labor Force Participation
El-Attar, Mayssun - 2021
In this paper we test the effect of trust on the choice of child care technology. We estimate individual-level trust as a latent attribute using survey questions on personal attitudes by applying the econometric methodology by Spady (2007). Compared to other measures of trust, using this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316743
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Child Discipline in Times of Conflict
Malcolm, Michael - 2017
Using a unique pairing of household survey data and geolocational conflict data, we investigate the relationship between local conflict intensity and the disciplinary methods employed by Iraqi households. We find that parents in high-conflict areas are more likely to use both moderate and severe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948576
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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey
Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2011
and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …
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Can Immigrants Help Women 'Have it All'? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2014
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …
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Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows
Furtado, Delia - 2014
potentially more convenient childcare options with increased fertility. An analysis of U.S. Census data between 1980 and 2000 … among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions – namely, married women with a … the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigrant-induced changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044402
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Peer Effects and Fertility Preferences in China : Evidence from the China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey
Nie, Peng - 2020
Despite empirical evidence that individuals form their fertility preferences by observing social norms and interactions … China Labor-force Dynamics Survey to investigate the association between community-level peer effects and fertility … fertility reduces the preference of wanting only one child by 14.3%, whereas it increases the probability of preferring three …
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Risk Attitude and Nonmarital Birth
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2016
Using data of adult women from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that risk tolerance is associated with a higher probability of an out-of-partnership birth. In contrast, we find no association between risk tolerance and the probability of a cohabiting birth
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980274
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Gene-Environment Effects on Female Fertility
Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Francesconi, Marco - 2022
Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084078