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The impact of migration on family left behind
Antman, Francisca M. - 2012
migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the … effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses … parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532139
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Long-term effects of early childhood care and education
Ruhm, Christopher J.; Waldfogel, Jane - 2011
market outcomes of the children whose parents were affected by them, perhaps because benefits are hard to measure or confined … adults, particularly for disadvantaged children; however the gains may be less pronounced when high quality subsidized child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521179
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Women, family, and work : writings on the economics of gender
Moe, Karine S. (ed.) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001671551
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Gender and competition
Booth, Alison L. - 2009
In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879335
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What is the effect of housework on the market wage, and can it explain the gender wage gap?
Maani, Sholeh A.; Cruickshank, Amy A. - In: Journal of economic surveys 24 (2010) 3, pp. 402-427
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Early childhood education and care (ECEC) : a focused review of reform impact studies
Nieuwenhuis, Rense; Yerkes, Mara A.; Backman, Lovisa; … - Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Justiz und … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013469877
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Do we really know what makes us happy? : a review of the economic literature on the factors associated with subjective well-being
Dolan, Paul; Peasgood, Tessa; White, Mathew - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 29 (2008) 1, pp. 94-122
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Ecosystem services and poverty alleviation : trade-offs and management
Schreckenberg, Kathrin (ed.); Mace, Georgina M. (ed.);  … - 2018
Seeing the wood for the trees : exploring the evolution of frameworks of ecosystem services for human wellbeing / Unai Pascual and Caroline Howe -- Justice and equity : emerging research and policy approaches to address ecosystem service trade-offs / Neil Dawson, Brendan Coolsaet and Adrian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862818
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The economics of human development and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252655
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The economics of child well-being
Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J. - 2012
This chapter presents an integrated economic approach that organizes and interprets the evidence on child development. It also discusses the indicators of child well-being that are used in international comparisons. Recent evidence on child development is summarized, and policies to promote...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631453