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Díaz, Carlos; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2021

We study the interplay between parental and peer socialization in shaping criminal behavior among adolescents. We develop a simple cultural transmission model where parents affect how society influences their children's decisions. The model predicts that parental and peer socialization are...

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Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision : Evidence from China

Giles, John - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …

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Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China : 1982-2000

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2014

We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...

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The Gender Gap in Early Career in Mongolia

Pastore, Francesco - 2009

Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of the fifty poorest countries in the world. This paper addresses the issue by taking advantage of a School to Work Survey (SWTS) on young people aged 15-29 years carried out in...

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Childhood Determinants of Internal Youth Migration in Senegal

Herrera, Catalina - 2020

BACKGROUND: Internal migration, mostly composed of young adults and the poor, constitutes the largest flow of people in … developing countries. Few studies document the patterns and determinants of internal youth migration in sub-Saharan Africa …: Using a unique migration household survey in Senegal, we estimate multinomial logit models to analyze the role of childhood …

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The Temporal Stability of Children's Neighborhood Experiences : A Follow-Up from Birth to Age 15

Kleinepier, Tom - 2017

Despite increasing attention being paid to the temporal dynamics of childhood disadvantage, children's neighborhood characteristics are often measured at a single point in time. Whether such cross-sectional measures serve as reliable proxies for children's long-run neighborhood conditions...

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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 skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...

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Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows

Furtado, Delia - 2014

While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the childcare industry, this paper examines whether...

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Child Labor and the Arrival of Refugees : Evidence from Tanzania

Kofol, Chiara - 2018

in child labor outcome due to the forced migration shock exploring various channels …

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Neighbourhood Child Poverty in Sweden

Gustafsson, Björn - 2010

This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much larger in 2002 than in 1990, but also that most poor...

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