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The Stress Cost of Children
Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2015
We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how …
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The Value of Children and Immigrants in a Pay-as-You-Go Pension System : A Proposal for a Partial Transition to a Funded System
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2022
endowed with individual accounts equals the gross contributions" of this member. In Germany, this is an amount of about DM 175 …
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Childhood Health and Sibling Outcomes : The Shared Burden and Benefit of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Parman, John - 2013
children …
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Just and Reasonable Treatment : Racial Treatment in the Terms of Pauper Apprenticeship in Antebellum Maryland
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2021
. Contrary to some earlier interpretations, the system did not arbitrarily indent poor children. Court officials negotiated … of indenting indigent children. Black and white children received comparable compensation during the term of the …
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Sample-Selection Bias and Height Trends in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Zimran, Ariell - 2018
After adjusting for sample-selection bias, I find a net decline in average stature of 0.64 inches in the birth cohorts of 1832--1860 in the US. This result supports the veracity of the Antebellum Puzzle—a deterioration of health during early modern economic growth in the US. However, this...
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Do Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the Us, 1910-2013
Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2016
children. Until very recently, the influence of earlier generations could not be assessed even in long-running longitudinal …
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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction
Steier, Lloyd - 2013
, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …
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Adoptive Expectations : Rising Sons in Japanese Family Firms
Mehrotra, Vikas - 2011
The practice of adopting adults, even if one has biological children, makes Japanese family firms unusually competitive …
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Mother's Schooling and Fertility Under Low Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Lavy, Victor - 2011
number of children, better knowledge and higher probability of using contraceptives, recognition that family size can … compromise children quality, larger role for women in family decision making, less religiosity, and positive attitude towards …
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Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health
Currie, Janet - 2011
We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a site. We study singleton births to mothers residing within 5km of a Superfund site between 1989-2003 in five large states. Our "difference in differences" approach compares birth...
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