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Kids Count Data Book Online
Annie E. Casey Foundation
KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. Ten key measures …
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The Impact of Paternity Leave on Long-term Father Involvement
Rege, Mari; Solli, Ingeborg F. - Universitetet <Stavanger> / School of Business …
Using Norwegian registry data we investigate how paternity leave affects fathers’ long-termearnings. In 1993 Norway introduced a paternity quota of the paid parental leave. We estimatea difference-in-differences model which exploits differences in fathers' exposure to thepaternity quota. Our...
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Social Mobility, Life Chances, and the Early Years
Waldfogel, Jane - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
, because a good deal of inequality is alreadyapparent by the time children start school, and because children’s developmentmay …
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Strategies towards the Sustainable Household in Germany - Findings of an EU-Research Project on Clothing Care and Shelter
Bode, Matthias; Pfeiffer, Christiane; Schrader, Ulf - Institut für Betriebsforschung <Hannover> / Abteilung … - 2000
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Household Portfolios in Germany
Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - 2000
This paper describes portfolio choices of German households in the 1980s and 1990s, presenting stylized facts and analyzing recent trends in asset ownership rates and asset shares on the basis of financial accounts and survey data...
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Pocket Money and the Savings Behaviour of Primary School Children
Dubbert, Nicole; Hufnagel, Rainer
sich, dass ca. 80 % der Kinder regelmäßig Taschengeld erhalten, durchschnittlich 2.29 € pro Woche, bei einer … Selbstwirksamkeitsempfinden der Kinder und ihrer Fähigkeit, mit dem Taschengeld auszukommen, nachgewiesen werden. Dieses Resultat tritt ergänzend …-behavioural models. The results reveal that approximately 80 % of the children receive pocket money regularly. The average weekly amount …
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Förderung haushaltsbezogener Dienstleistungen - Sinnvoll, aber kurzfristige Beschäftigungswirkungen nicht überschätzen
Weinkopf, Claudia - 2003
This article focuses on the opportunities for and obstacles to the promotion of regularemployment in household …
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Rules and Reality: Quantifying the Practice of Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe
Minns, Chris; Wallis, Patrick - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
did not complete their terms of indenture; late arrival and early departure from the master’s household was widespread …
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From Economic Convergence to Convergence in Affluence? Income Growth, Household Expenditure and the Rise of Mass Consumption in Britain and West Germany, 1950-1974
Kramper, Peter - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
The “Golden Age” of post-war European economic growth has witnessedextraordinary changes not only in the economic, but also in the social andcultural outlook of Western European societies. Eric Hobsbawm’s statementthat “[h]istorians of the twentieth century in the third millennium will...
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Conspicuous Consumption and Race:Evidence from South Africa
Kaus, Wolfhard - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010
A century ago, Thorstein Veblen introduced socially contingent con-sumption into the economic literature. This paper complements the scarceempirical literature by testing his conjecture on South African householddata and nds that Black and Coloured households spend relatively moreon visible...
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