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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being : Evidence from India
Hu, Luojia - 2011
associated with a reduction in excess female child mortality, or a reduction in son preference …
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Wars and Child Health : Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict
Akresh, Richard - 2011
sites to more accurately measure a child's war exposure. War-exposed children in both countries have lower height-for-age Z …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128230
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Whose Children Gain from Starting School Later? Evidence from Hungary
Hámori, Szilvia - 2011
We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children generally gain from starting school one year later and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128750
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Are We Wasting Our Children's Time by Giving Them More Homework?
Eren, Ozkan - 2011
Following an identification strategy that allows us to largely eliminate unobserved student and teacher traits, we examine the effect of homework on math, science, English and history test scores for eighth grade students in the United States. Noting that failure to control for these effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128834
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Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health : Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
Chang, Simon - 2011
We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan in the early 20th century. We find that malaria exposure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129095
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The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence
Fehr, Ernst - 2011
We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...
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Does Quality Time Produce Quality Children? Evidence on the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital Using Parental Deaths
Gould, Eric D. - 2011
whether the parent-child correlation in schooling outcomes stems from a causal relationship. Using a large sample of Israeli … determining child outcomes, while the education of the surviving parent becomes a stronger factor. Moreover, within the group of … families that lost a parent, this pattern intensifies when a child loses a parent earlier in life - the education of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129934
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Mother's Autonomy and Child Welfare : A New Measure and Some New Evidence
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2011
principal components of a variety of household variables on which mother of a child takes decision. We then examine its impacts … on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131165
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The Role of Mothers and Fathers in Providing Skills : Evidence from Parental Deaths
Adda, Jerome - 2011
This paper evaluates the long-term consequences of parental death on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills, as well as on labor market outcomes. We exploit a large administrative data set covering many Swedish cohorts. We develop new estimation methods to tackle the potential endogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131421
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Smart and Dangerous : How Cognitive Skills Drive the Intergenerational Transmission of Retaliation
Henry, Ruby - 2011
A need exists to understand how people develop an aggressive, retaliatory conflict resolution policy vs. a more passive reconciliation stance. I contribute a choice-theoretic model that explains how cognitive skills drive the transmission of conflict resolution policies. A childﾒs resolution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131920