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While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores …
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The present paper argues that intergenerational transfers between elderly parents and adult children are important … distinguishes between exchange of both financial and other kinds of transfers between elderly parents and adult children and then …
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older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members …
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We investigate the impact of family co-residence structure and the allocation of major childcare responsibility across … generations on a child's cognitive development. Using data from China, we find that children living in multigenerational families … school children, but not for middle school children. However, children who live only with their parents and children who live …
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When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … changes to the family's budget constraint on parents' working hours. Labor supply is theoretically expected to increase for … parents who used to spend time taking care of their children, but to decrease for fulltime working parents because of an …
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children. Using data from a large panel survey of Polish households carried out in 2013 and 2014 (Determinants of Educational … amount of time parents spend with their children reading, playing or teaching them new things. We account for employment … time' devoted to children. We show that these are parental human and cultural capital and their values that are primary …
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relying on forecasts. Adult outcomes on the participants' children and siblings allow us to quantify spillover benefits. The …
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In this paper, we model the consequences of childhood health on adult health and socio-economic status outcomes in China using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), the CHARLS Pilot survey respondents are...
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We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations during the mandatory military enlistment tests at age...
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Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child...
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