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older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. …
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regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under …
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this paper, we study the effect of a monthly cash subsidy on young adults' emancipation, family formation, and fertility … youngsters delay emancipation and family formation because they are budget constrained. …
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incorporating dynamics among family members – mother, father and children. Single equation, bivariate, and four-state (multivariate …
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Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong … examining whether racial differences in family business backgrounds can explain why black-owned businesses lag substantially … that black business owners have a relatively disadvantaged family business background compared with white business owners …
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This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of destination language … proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It …
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This paper examines the family variables that affect intergenerational living arrangements and adult children's time … and cash transfers to their unpartnered disabled elderly parents. The family variables we examine include parental marital … changes are weakening the traditional role of the family as a support network. Because more recent cohorts of elderly persons …
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interdependencies in well-being at the family level. This paper develops an ordered probit model with multiple random effects that …
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We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree … to which family size and birth order affect a child's subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a trade off … between child quantity and 'quality'. Family size might adversely affect the production of child quality within a family. A …
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While several social, economic and financial indicators point to a growing convergence among European countries, striking differences still emerge in the timing of leaving home for adult children. In Southern countries (as Spain, Italy or Portugal) in 2001 more than 70 percent of young adults...
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