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This paper is an empirical investigation of childhood and adolescent health and cognitive development as determined by family economic variables. The model proposed recognizes that these processes may be jointly dependent, and may in part be determined by common unobserved factors; these factors...
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likely to be married at delivery. When we turn to fertility, we find that in families with at least two children, the …
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Sex ratios at birth in South Korea reached 116.5 boys per 100 girls in 1990, but have since declined. In 2007, sex ratios were almost normal, a development heralded as a sign that son preference and sex choice have vanished. However, normal sex ratios imply neither. We show that over the last 60...
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to preserve joint leisure, and those with higher full incomes consume more of their leisure jointly. Children reduce the …
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gender gap in labor supply. Gender differences in beliefs about this future gap are primarily explained by gender differences …
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two births in families with at least two children, to estimate the effect of additional children on parents' labor supply … differences in the ages of children whose birth was caused by the instruments. The estimates imply that the labor supply …
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Whereas studies have established the intra-household distribution of resources affects allocation decisions, little is known about how these decisions are affected by the distribution of resources among co-resident and non co-resident extended family members. Drawing on theoretical models of...
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documenting three facts using population tax records for children born in the 1980s. First, gender gaps in employment rates …We show that differences in childhood environments play an important role in shaping gender gaps in adulthood by …, earnings, and college attendance vary substantially across the parental income distribution. Notably, the traditional gender …
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-5) veterans and of their adult children. Younger veterans who had been severely wounded in the war left the farm sector, becoming … their wealth declined by 37-46%. War wounds were correlated with children's socioeconomic and mortality outcomes in ways …
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children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …
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