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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, James; 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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How do parents perceive the returns to parenting styles and neighborhoods?
Kiessling, Lukas - 2020
This paper studies parental beliefs about the returns to two factors affecting the development and long-term outcomes of children: (i) parenting styles defined by the extent of warmth and control parents employ in raising children, and (ii) neighborhood quality. Based on a representative sample...
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Parental migration, investment in children, and children's non-cognitive development : evidence from rural China
Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019
the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how … parental migration affects children's non-cognitive development. We use longitudinal data of children in rural China and adopt … labor market conditions in destination provinces as instrumental variables for parental endogenous migration choice. We find …
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Childhood determinants of internal youth migration in Senegal
Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2020
BACKGROUND: Internal migration, mostly composed of young adults and the poor, constitutes the largest flow of people in … developing countries. Few studies document the patterns and determinants of internal youth migration in sub-Saharan Africa …. METHODS: Using a unique migration household survey in Senegal, we estimate multinomial logit models to analyze the role of …
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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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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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The temporal stability of children's neighborhood experiences : a follow-up from birth to age 15
Kleinepier, Tom; Ham, Maarten van - 2017
Despite increasing attention being paid to the temporal dynamics of childhood disadvantage, children's neighborhood characteristics are often measured at a single point in time. Whether such cross-sectional measures serve as reliable proxies for children's long-run neighborhood conditions...
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Linking neighbors' fertility : third births in Norwegian neighborhoods
Bergsvik, Janna - 2019
The aim of this paper is to gain more insight on the drivers behind geographical variations in family sizes by pointing out the role of neighborhoods and neighbors for two-child couples' transitions to third births. Couples' decisions about fertility behavior are influenced by their social...
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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 accessible...
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