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Restrictions on migration create gender inequality : the story of China's left-behind children
Gao, Xuwen; Liang, Wenquan; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; … - 2022
About 11% of the Chinese population are rural-urban migrants, and the vast majority of them (124 million people) possess a rural hukou which severely restrict their children's access to urban public schools. As a result, 61 million children are left behind in rural areas. We use a...
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Ocean salinity, early-life health, and adaptation
Guimbeau, Amanda; Ji, Xinde; Long, Zi; Menon, Nidhiya - 2023
We study the effects of in utero exposure to climate change induced high ocean salinity levels on children's anthropometric outcomes. Leveraging six geo-referenced waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys merged with gridded data on ocean salinity, ocean chemistry and weather...
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A Pragmatic Approach to Measuring Neighbourhood Poverty Change
Gambaro, Ludovica; Joshi, Heather; Lupton, Ruth; … - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2014
This paper uses a new indicator to track poverty from 2001 to 2006 in small areas in Great Britain. The indicator, called Unadjusted Means-tested Benefits Rate (UMBR), was devised by Fenton (2013) and is the ratio of claimants of means tested benefits to the number of households in a small area....
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Child Social Exclusion: An Updated Index From the 2006 Census
McNamara, Justin; Harding, Ann - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 12 (2009) 1, pp. 41-64
Much research about child poverty and disadvantage provides national estimates of child wellbeing, due to the ready availability of microdata at the national level. However, an increasing body of evidence suggests that there can be major differences in wellbeing between children living in...
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How Policymakers Should Deal with the Delayed Benefits of Early Childhood Programs
Bartik, Timothy J. - 2009
This chapter is a draft of Chapter 7 of a planned book, 'Preschool and Jobs: Human Development as Economic Development, and Vice Versa.' This book analyzes early childhood programs’ effects on regional economic development. Four early childhood programs are considered: 1) universally...
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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto Castro, Adrian; Tatsiramos, … - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an event-study design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an event-study design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082392
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The Impact of Migration on Children Left Behind in Developing Countries : Outcomes Analysis and Data Requirements
Rossi, Andrea - 2014
In the research and reports on international migration, relatively little sustained academic scholarship addresses the … impacts and implications of migration for youth and children whose families migrate or who themselves migrate to other … developing countries. In the international debate on migration, scant attention has been given to children, and few statistics on …
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Private educational expenditure inequality between migrant and urban households in China's cities
Chen, Yiwen; Salagean, Ioana; Zou, Benteng - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 10, pp. 1-22
substantial private tutoring expenditure. We apply multiple regression to the 2008 "Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China" data to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015196514
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Job location decisions and the effect of children on the employment gender gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an event-study design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262640