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We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of …
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We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers …, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the …
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present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …
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compares the prevalence and development of destructive envy in children aged seven to ten. The experiment took place in the … children´s natural environment - their schools. We also checked for cultural variability of our results by conducting our study … with German children and with children from a highly egalitarian society: the Eastern Penan of northern Borneo. We found …
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In this paper, we analyze the determinants of the living arrangements of elderly parents and their children (whether … elderly parents live with their children, and if so, with which child) in Japan using micro data from a household survey. We … living with children other than the eldest son, even if the eldest son is not the eldest child. Moreover, we find that …
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children leads to a significant decline in the number of publications by women, while not affecting the number of publications … by men. We also find that the gendered effect of children on productivity hardly mitigates differences in publication … of children on productivity. We further find that the gendered effect of childbearing depends partly on prior levels of …
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. Using the Pakistan Demographic Health Survey (PDHS) of 2006-07, the study has targeted the children of age 12-23 months and … found substantial sex differences in the immunization status of children where boys are more immunized than girls …'s characteristics including age, literacy and headship of the household significantly affect the immunization status of the children …
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The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted...
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Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the … vulnerable position of Germany?s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as … improvements in day care provision for children. With respect to selected non-monetary as well as monetary indicators our empirical …
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The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of fiscal policy on the economic resources available to children … groups, and in particular to what degree do cash transfer and tax systems benefit children relative to older groups? Second …, what fractions of the needs of children are supported by elements of the tax and transfer systems directed explicitly to …
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