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parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child … 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 non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses …
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", i.e, the presence of children, while parents are engaged in elder care activities, increases by 11.63% the time devoted … that the presence of children has on the time devoted to elder care. We combine the approach of the Social Cognitive Theory … per day when children are present during adult care activities. …
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parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child … 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 non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652104
and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in … their parents' off-farm work decisions for three aggregated ethnic groups (majority Han, Muslim minorities, and non- Muslim … local economic conditions. Children generally decrease women's willingness to work away from/outside the home and increase …
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The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in …
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Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation …
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are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation … the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … suggest that policy efforts to keep separated parents geographically closer together for the sake of the children may, in fact …
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–quality trade-off, we demonstrate the nature of the bias and estimate bounds on the true parameter. …
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The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565188
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data for 17 million births in 72 countries, we...
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