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The effects on stature of poverty, family size and birth order: British children in the 1930s
Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - 2008
quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed … in Britain. Our results provide strong support both for negative birth order effects and negative family size effects on … positively influences the heights of children but, even after accounting for this, the number of children in the family still has …
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The impact of relative cohort size on U.S. fertility, 1913 - 2001
Jeon, Yongil; Shields, Michael P. - 2008
This paper tests for the long-term and short-term relationships between fertility and relative cohort size for the United States using the annual time series data between 1913 and 2001. An error correction model, imbedded with the cointegration theory, is coupled with the general impulse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268875
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Intergenerational transmission of healthy eating behaviour and the role of household income
Goode, Alison; Mavromaras, Kostas; Smith, Murray - 2008
This paper investigates the possibility of intergenerational transmission of unhealthy eating habits from parents to adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating behaviour of adult children and the past parental death...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268566
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The economic security index: A new measure for research and policy analysis
Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - 2012
This paper presents the Economic Security Index (ESI), a new, more comprehensive measure of economic insecurity. By combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket...
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The impact of family income on child achievement: Evidence from the earned income tax credit
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - 2012
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and … (EITC) over the last two decades. The largest of these changes increased family income by as much as 20%, or approximately …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284026
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Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being : Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes - 2004
The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach will be introduced, where the life satisfaction data of parents will be regressed onto the living conditions of their children who now live independently. After controlling for...
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Is there an income gradient in child health? It depends whom you ask
Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - 2010
A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the socioeconomic gradient are likely to be biased and potentially...
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Widening participation in higher education: Analysis using linked administrative data
Chowdry, Haroon; Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; … - 2010
This paper makes use of newly linked administrative data to better understand the determinants of higher education participation amongst individuals from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. It is unique in being able to follow two cohorts of students in England - those who took GCSEs...
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The influence of wages on parents' allocations of time to child care and market work in the United Kingdom
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie; Ribar, David C.; Stratton, … - 2006
We use time-diary data on couples with children from the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Survey to examine the impacts of own and partner's wages on parents' provision of child care and market work on weekdays and on weekends and holidays. We find that increases in partners' wages increase women's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276857
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Unofficial development assistance: A dynamic model of charities' donation income
Arulampalam, Wiji; Backus, Peter G.; Micklewright, John - 2011
The empirical literature on the determinants of charities donation income, distinguishing the charitable cause, is small. We extend the literature in several ways. First, we focus on overseas development charities allowing us to give more consideration to the particular characteristics of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278682