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also allows individuals' employment decisions to affect body weight. I use conditional density estimation to formulate the …
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children is prone to greater variability according to life experiences than that of socially adjusted children. We find that … socially maladjusted children and, overall, investment in higher education seems to be relevant. This suggests that … interventions during life development for socially maladjusted children could be important to reduce inequality in adult employment …
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This paper conducts an econometric analysis of data for a sample of over 4000 children in India, between the ages of 1 …-2 years of age, with a view to studying two aspects of the neglect of children: their likelihood of being immunised against … on whether or not their mothers were literate: there was no gender discrimination between children of literate mothers …
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This paper estimates the returns to education in Guatemala, while attempting to account for self-employment and the presence of workers without monetary earnings in the economy, factors whose omission can potentially lead to sample selection bias. The analysis uses data from the Survey of Living...
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. Using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics for Canada and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 for the …
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This note analyzes income differences between foreigners and natives in Germany. Using social survey data (ALLBUS) for … 2012, I use Mincer style quantile regressions and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions to estimate the size of the income … differential. People not born in Germany, have an income lose for about 6,5 to 10 per cent. People with a foreign citizenship have …
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educational level. The same holds for income and early cognitive ability. Generally speaking differences in early cognitive …
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in her marriage market. A principle concern in estimation is the presence of market-level unobserved heterogeneity that …
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Despite a central element of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the progress in making pregnancy and childbearing safer for women has been slow in many developing countries. Though Bangladesh has achieved commendable progress in reducing maternal mortality in recent decades, the country...
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, communities and children, including level of education and access to public services,. Public policy has a crucial role in …
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