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I'm not fat, just too short for my weight: Family child care and obesity in Germany
Mahler, Philippe - 2007
Obesity is increasing worldwide for both adults and children. Genetic disposition is responsible for some variation in … obesity in children and adults. This paper analyzes the effect of mother's labor supply in childhood on young adults … importance of childhood environment on children's later life outcome and the importance of behavioral changes in explaining the …
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Cheaper children, more children
Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2008
We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous variation in child care costs caused by a Swedish child care...
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Selfish and prospective theory and evidence of pocketbook voting
Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008
Democrats proposed budget cuts affecting parents with young children before the 1994 election, but made generous promises to the … same group before the 1998 election. Since parents with older children were largely unaffected we use a difference …
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Methodology and change : problems of applied social science research techniques in the Commonwealth Caribbean
Lindsay, Louis (contributor) - 1978
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Notes on organization and change in the Caribbean : introductory readings in organizational theory and behaviour
Nunes, Frederick E.; Draper, Gordon - 1977 - 3. repr
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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes
Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2017
's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …
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The duration of paid parental leave and cildren's scholastic performance
Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …
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Does the stork deliver happiness? Parenthood and life satisfaction
Baetschmann, Gregori; Staub, Kevin E.; Studer, Raphael - 2012
This paper examines the relationship between parenthood and life satisfaction using longitudinal data on women from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Previous studies have focused on satisfaction differences between parents and comparable childless adults, mostly finding small and often negative...
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From social safety net to social policy? The role of conditional cash transfers in welfare state development in Latin America
Bastagli, Francesca - 2009
During the 1990s, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) were adopted by countries across Latin America as central elements of their poverty reduction strategies. Alongside other developments in the area of social assistance, CCTs represent an opportunity for countries to develop an integrated and...
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Towards Effective Social Insurance in Latin America: The Importance of Countercyclical Fiscal Policy
Braun, Miguel; di Gresia, Luciano - 2003
Latin America is a volatile, crisis-prone region, with limited and inadequate social insurance. Therefore, the long-term as well as the recent poor suffer significantly during crises. Furthermore, social spending is procyclical in the region, but less so than total spending, indicating that the...
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