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Sibling Size and Investment in Children's Education: An Asian Instrument
Lee, Jungmin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. … fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822536
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The Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Structural Change
Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2023
household wealth, reduced child mortality, and female basic education are crucial for fertility reductions. Yet, our analysis …Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility … transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296710
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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - 2004
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261870
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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763893
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The impact of teenage motherhood on the education and fertility of their children: Evidence for Europe
Navarro, María; Walker, Ian - 2012
schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education … findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289950
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New evidence on the causal link between the quantity and quality of children
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor; Schlosser, Analía - 2006
the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267406
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Is the quantity-quality trade-off a trade-off for all, none, or some?
Millimet, Daniel L.; Wang, Le - 2009
Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship - particularly on child health - is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses the quantity-quality trade-off across the entire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269179
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Prenatal sex selection and girls' well-being: Evidence from India
Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analia - 2011
In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278396
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A constitutional theory of the family
Cigno, Alessandro - 2005
The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267482
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Optimal family policy in the presence of moral hazard, when the quantity and quality of children are stochastic
Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2009
We examine the second-best family policy under the assumption that both the number and the future earning capacities of the children born to a couple are random variables with probability distributions conditional on unobservable parental actions. Potential parents take their decisions without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269114