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Less restrictive birth control, less education? : evidence from ethnic minorities in China
Liu, Yishen; Pan, Yao - 2016
This paper investigates the net impact of birth control policy in China on educational attainment of the partially excluded ethnic minorities. Exploring county-level variation in the value of fines levied for unsanctioned births, we show that more stringent enforcement of the birth control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484505
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Children and the youth in rural Viet Nam
Narciso, Gaia; Newman, Carol - 2015
Structural transformation in rural Viet Nam has led to rising incomes and a diversification of livelihoods away from agriculture. Using panel data on children in 2,181 rural households surveyed over the 2008-14 period, we examine how the welfare of children has been impacted by structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342302
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Children's endowment, schooling, and work in Ethiopia
Dendir, Seife - 2013
I investigate the relationship between children's endowment and parental investment using a rich dataset on a cohort of children from Ethiopia, who were surveyed at ages eight, twelve and fifteen. Children's endowment is measured by scores on tests of cognitive skills/ability. A child's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009791728
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Reducing early pregnancy in low-income countries : a literature review and new evidence
Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Mohamed … - 2017
Many adolescent girls in low-income countries face the challenge of early pregnancy and lifelong dependence upon family and partners. In this paper, we review the literature on field interventions aimed at reducing early pregnancies in low-income countries and report from a randomized control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659540
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Skills, personality traits, and gender wage gaps : evidence from Bangladesh
Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2018
We use a recent first-hand linked employer-employee survey covering the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive attainment and personality traits. Our results show that cognitive skills have greater explanatory power than personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883195
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Gender preference at birth : a new measure for son preference based on stated preferences and observed measures of parents' fertility decisions
Ali, Mehwish Ghulam; De Silva, Ashton; Sinclair, Sarah; … - 2022
children do not reflect the true extent of son preference in high fertility countries such as Pakistan, where the success of … preference on fertility behaviour in Pakistan, accurate measurement of the forms this gender bias can take is necessary to … appropriately gauge the influence of son preference on the fertility outcomes. The limited capacity of existing measures to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013349420
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The effect of China's One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughters
Qian, Nancy - 2017
I first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second child. Next, I show that the increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776484
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What drives parental investments in early childhood? : experimental evidence from a video intervention in Rwanda
Justino, Patricia; Leone, Marinella; Rolla, Pierfrancesco; … - 2023
This paper investigates the causal impact of a randomized video intervention designed to study the determinants of parental time investments in early childhood among low-income parents. We designed and screened a video that provided information and conveyed persuasive messages about the...
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Entrepreneurship and human capital development in children
Brandt, Kasper; Rutasitara, Longinus; Selejio, Onesmo; … - 2017
This paper explores the link between entrepreneurship and child human capital development. We specifically examine how operating a non-farm enterprise (NFE) as opposed to working in agriculture relates to child labour and schooling outcomes. Accounting for timeinvariant unobservable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776297
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On the fertility transition in Africa : income, child mortality, or education?
Mveyange, Anthony - 2015
A consensus among social scientists is that fertility rates in Africa are declining. What determines these declines? I … present fresh evidence that shows education, especially for women, is an important determinant of the fertility transition in … capita and child mortality on fertility rates are non-robust and inconsistent with the predictions of the unified growth …
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