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This paper theoretically investigates how community approval or disapprovalaects school attendance and child labor and how aggregate behavior of thecommunity feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro-)schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take...
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To examine the impact of Rwanda`s 1994 genocide on children`s schooling, the authors combine two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide. The identification strategy uses pre-war data to control for an age group`s baseline schooling and exploits variation across...
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variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual …
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Richer and healthier agents tend to hold riskier portfolios and spend proportionallyless on health expenditures …. Potential explanations include health and wealth eects onpreferences, expected longevity or disposable total wealth. Using HRS … data, we perform astructural estimation of a dynamic model of consumption, portfolio and health expenditurechoices with …
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access has animpact on their health at birth and on their health during early childhood. Theresults suggest that children … does notappear to have a large effect on differentials in child health in early childhood.[...] …
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We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years ofdata from the Panel Study of …
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This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India andinvestigates likely mechanisms. A recent OECD-dominated literature shows that mortality atmost ages is pro-cyclical but similar analyses for poorer countries are scarce, and bothincome risk and mortality...
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There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household …
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with micro-founded fertility and schoolingbehavior. We then show how a Beckerian child quality-quantity trade-o explainswhy …
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We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and incomeusing panel cointegration techniques and … for amajor part of the fertility change characterizing the demographic transition. The fertilityreduction triggered by …
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