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Why do children take care of their elderly parents? : are the Japanese any different?

Horioka, Charles; Gahramanov, Emin; Hayat, Aziz; Tang, Xueli - 2016

In this paper, we conduct a theoretical analysis of why individuals provide care and attention to their elderly parents using a two-period overlapping generations model with endogenous saving and a "contest success function" and test this model using micro data from a Japanese household survey,...

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Why do children take care of their elderly parents? : are the Japanese any different?

Horioka, Charles; Gahramanov, Emin; Hayat, Aziz; Tang, Xueli - 2016

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Does single motherhood hurt infant health among young mothers?

Kim, Young-il; Lee, Jungmin - 2017

of coresidence during pregnancy. In this paper, we exploit quasi-natural variation in single motherhood from the moment … birth certificate dataset is unique in that it allows us to distinguish coresidence and legal marital status and further to … identify the duration of pregnancy period without a partner. Results show that although coresidence with the partner during …

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Does single pregnancy hurt birth outcomes among young mothers?

Kim, Young-il; Lee, Jungmin - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 89 (2023) 2, pp. 149-181

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The demand for season of birth

Clarke, Damian; Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2016

We study the determinants of season of birth of the first child, for white married women aged 25-45 in the US, using birth certificate and Census data. We also analyze stated preferences for season of birth using our own Amazon Mechanical Turk survey. The prevalence of quarters 2 and 3 is...

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Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; Søgaard, … - 2018

Despite considerable gender convergence over time, substantial gender inequality persists in all countries. Using Danish administrative data from 1980-2013 and an event study approach, we show that most of the remaining gender inequality in earnings is due to children. The arrival of children...

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