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purposeful gender equity strategy. We again hypothesise and confirm that these household types significantly diverge, finding … both the women and men in the equity type often achieve positive outcomes regarding gender equity and economic and family …
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combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …
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have more command over household resources. Baseline results on children's shares are robust to using alternative … joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and … children's shares together with economies of scale, using the observation of adult-specific goods and an extended version of …
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Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … children through the caring preferences of their parents or has treated them as household public goods [Bourguignon (1999 … capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated …
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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 from cardiovascular disease (CVD). It uses parental CVD death as an … adverse health signal which may cause a healthy eating compensatory response in adult children. This response is due to …
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explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the … particular. Arguably, it is within the household that a gendered division of labour is most relevant. It is difficult to observe … household and to what extent taxes and benefits mitigate (or indeed exacerbate) any inequality of income between men and women …
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and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21 percentage point gender disparity in enrollment, and dramatically … children and increases test scores by 0.51 standard deviations (1.2 standard deviations for children that enroll in school …We conduct a randomized evaluation of the effect of village-based schools on children's academic performance using a …
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We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers …, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the … here. This gender gap is observed already with three-year olds, indicating that gender differences in competitiveness …
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and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually … present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …
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This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon - nor are social scientists. The paper discusses its economic and evolutionary roots. It also...
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