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Children's Schooling and Parental Migration: Empirical Evidence on the "Left Behind" Generation in Albania
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause …This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind … relational and psychological problems that may affect children's welfare in the long-term. The phenomenon of children left behind …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536010
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Can government policies reverse undesirable declines in fertility?
Brainerd, Elizabeth - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10
incentives to encourage people to have more children. These policies seem only modestly effective in countering the impacts of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764625
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Providing Greater Old-Age Security in China
Herd, Richard; Hu, Hu-Wei; Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
China’s population is set to age fast, owing to low fertility and rising life expectancy. With ongoing migration of the younger cohorts to urban areas the increase in the old-age dependency ratio will be even more pronounced in rural than in urban areas. Very different pension arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542491
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Family Planning: Program Effects
Miller, Grant; Babiarz, Kimberly Singer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
-economic outcomes (mortality, human capital, and labor force participation), and children's health and socio-economic outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951137
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Is there a cost associated with an increase in family size beyond child investment? Evidence from developing countries
Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio - Banco de España - 2011
arrangements and they are more likely to use contraceptives. Children are less likely to receive some vaccines, attend school, live …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320597
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Enhancing Cognitive Functioning: Medium-Term Effects of a Health and Family Planning Program in Matlab
Barham, Tania - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4 (2012) 1, pp. 245-73
whether children eligible for child health interventions in early childhood had better cognitive functioning at ages 8-14. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401169
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Jobs and Kids: Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China
Eggleston, Karen Nisa; Zeckhauser, Richard; Fang, Hai; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
married woman's preferred number of children by 0.35 on average and her actual number by 0.50. Ramifications for China's one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008635938
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Relative Economic Decline and Unrealized Demographic Opportunity in the Philippines
Edmonds, Christopher; Fujimura, Manabu - East-West Center - 2005
The paper examines the long-run relationship between demographic and macroeconomic development trends in the Philippines, and compares trends observed in that country to trends in eight regional neighbors in East and Southeast Asia. The Philippines stands out from these countries in that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696620
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Jobs and Kids: Female Employment and Fertility in China
Fang, Hai; Eggleston, Karen N.; Rizzo, John A.; … - Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University - 2012
married woman's preferred number of children by 0.35 on average and her actual number by 0.50. Ramifications for China's one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010602069
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Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China
Fang, Hai; Eggleston, Karen N.; Rizzo, John A.; … - Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University - 2010
employment affects fertility. Such employment reduces a married woman's actual number of children by 0.64, her preferred number …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008584434