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Population Aging and Migration
Poutvaara, Panu - 2021
fertility rate and emigration rate are going to develop in Africa. Even modest increases in emigration from Africa would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597535
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Gender, educational attainment, and the impact of parental migration on children left behind
Antman, Francisca M. - 2012
Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287686
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Gender, Educational Attainment, and the Impact of Parental Migration on Children Left Behind
Antman, Francisca M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561763
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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India
Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014
This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333315
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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India
Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744667
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Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C. - 2000
framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural … favourable indirect repercussions on the nutritional status of children. Both types of policies discourage fertility. Income re …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262340
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What's the use of marriage?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269649
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Family Size, Sibling Rivalry and Migration: Evidence from Mexico
Bratti, Massimiliano; Fiore, Simona; Mendola, Mariapia - 2016
teenagers' and young adults' migration outcomes. We find no empirical support for the hypothesis that high fertility drives … using biological fertility (miscarriages) and infertility shocks. Yet, the chances to migrate are not equally distributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653190
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Migration, transfers and child labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2011
We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278817
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The impact of migration on family left behind
Antman, Francisca M. - 2012
This paper addresses the effects of migration on families left behind and offers new evidence on the impact of migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the effects of migration on the education and health of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282452