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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 … group`s baseline schooling and exploits variation across provinces in the intensity of killings and which children`s cohorts …
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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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II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibriummodel with endogenous fertility and female labor …
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Little is known about why cohabiting couples have fewer children than married couples. Weexplore the factors that … explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using aswitching regression analysis, which enables us to …
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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 …There is emerging evidence to suggest that initial differentials between thehealth of poor and more affluent children … all children have access to equally effective primary care providers.This paper examines this explanation. The analysis …
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