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Do family planning programs decrease poverty? : evidence from public census data (families, children and human capital formation)
Bailey, Martha J.; Malkova, Olga; Norling, Johannes - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 60 (2014) 2, pp. 312-337
This article provides new evidence that family planning programs are associated with a decrease in the share of children and adults living in poverty. Our research design exploits the county roll-out of US family planning programs in the late 1960s and early 1970s and examines their relationship...
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Social transfers, changing family structure and low income among children
Picot, Garnett - In: Canadian public policy : a journal for the discussion … 22 (1996) 3, pp. 244-267
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Why do children move into and out of low income : changing labour market conditions or marriage and divorce?
Picot, Garnett; Zyblock, M.; Pyper, W. - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001370096
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Does Parents’ Access to Family Planning Increase Children's Opportunities? Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X
Bailey, Martha J. - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between parents' access to family planning and the economic resources of their children. Using the county-level introduction of U.S. family planning programs between 1964 and 1973, we find that children born after programs began had 2.8% higher household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944640
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Does Parents’ Access to Family Planning Increase Children’s Opportunities? Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X
Bailey, Martha J. - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between parents' access to family planning and the economic resources of their children. Using the county-level introduction of U.S. family planning programs between 1964 and 1973, we find that children born after programs began had 2.8% higher household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453742
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Why Do Children Move into and Out of Low Income : Changing Labor Market Conditions or Marriage and Divorce?
Picot, Garnett; Zyblock, Myles; Pyper, Wendy - 1999
Child poverty is high on the government's agenda. In order to reduce the rate of low-income among children, one has to … that for an individual child, a divorce or marriage can have a tremendous influence on the likelihood of entering or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192682
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Social Transfers, Earnings and Low-Income Intensity Among Canadian Children, 1981-96 : Highlighting Recent Development in Low-Income Measurement
Myles, John; Picot, Garnett - 2010
In this paper, we revisit trends in low-income among Canadian children by taking advantage of recent developments in the measurement of low-income intensity. We focus in particular on the Sen-Shorrocks-Thon (SST) index and its elaboration by Osberg and Xu. Low-income intensity declined in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014155492
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Does Family Planning Increase Children’s Opportunities? Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X
Bailey, Martha J.; Malkova, Olga; McLaren, Zoe - 2016
average child. Using the county-level introduction of U.S. family planning programs between 1964 and 1973, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014126783
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Social Transfers, Changing Family Structure, and Low Income Among Children
Picot, Garnett; Myles, John - 2008
. Rather child poverty has followed the usual fluctuations of the business cycle. We show that the relative stability in child … households. Today's young parents are better educated, working more hours, having fewer children, and postponing child … has been swamped by other changes in family patterns and labor market behavior that have reduced the risk of child poverty …
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