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Family economics writ large
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016
fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a … shaping family life are stressed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585848
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Child's socio-emotional skills : is there a quantity-quality trade-off?
Briole, Simon; Le Forner, Helène; Lepinteur, Anthony - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234754
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Fertility, household size and poverty in Nepal
Libois, François; Somville, Vincent - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806131
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A report on attitudes towards family planning & family size in Botswana
du Pradal, Pia - 1985
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003534125
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Family change in Latin America : schooling and labor market implications for children and women
Esteve, Albert; Castro Torres, Andrés Felipe; Becca, … - 2023
This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin …-Paredes, 2018a; Juárez & Gayet, 2014). This combination of stability and change has had profound transformations in the family … status in which women raise their children and the family context in which children are raised. We refer to family context as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014546253
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USSR, education, work history, fertility choices, and later-life outcomes
Pérez-Izquierdo, Telmo; Pronkina, Elizaveta - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012310711
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Citation success over time : theory or empirics?
Johnston, David; Piatti, Marco; Torgler, Benno - 2012
This study investigates the citation patterns of theoretical and empirical papers over a period of almost 30 years, while also exploring the determinants of citation success. The results indicate that empirical papers attract more citation success than theoretical studies. However, the pattern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575963
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Attractiveness, anthropometry or both? : their relationship and role in economic research
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2014
We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and BMI, separately by gender and also accounting for interviewer fixed effects, in a nationally representative sample. We are the first to show that height, weight, and BMI all...
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Earning differentials between German and French speakers in Switzerland
Cattaneo, Alejandra (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
The paper analyzes the effect of mother tongue on labor market outcomes of Swiss residents. This type of analysis can shed light on an important policy question. Is the Swiss labor market well integrated, or can one find instead segmentation along language borders? Improving on previous research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001807280
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Fatter attraction : marital status and the relationship between BMI and labor supply
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2009
We empirically analyze the labor supply choices of married men and women according to their body size (BMI), using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics on anthropometric characteristics of both spouses, and unmarried men and women as comparison group. Heavier husbands are found to work...
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