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Child-specific son preference, birth order and cognitive skills in early childhood
Ebert, Cara; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2019
We propose an innovative child-specific measure of son preference. It allows to explicitly address birth order and sex composition effects. We first establish that, when using this child-specific measure, son preference is more common among later born children and in families with fewer sons. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037957
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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2019
We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964886
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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2018 - This version: August 19, 2018
We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888643
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Peer gender and mental health
Getik, Demid; Meier, Armando N. - 2020
mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects … mental health. We use Swedish administrative data (N=576,285) to link variation in gender composition across classrooms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012309783
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Gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills: roles of SES and gender attitudes
Hervé, Justine; Mani, Subha; Behrman, Jere R.; Nandi, … - 2021
Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2020
. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419034
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026021
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037965
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Television, cognitive ability, and high school completion
Hernæs, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016
-educational media content as a factor in the widening educational gender gap. Based on time-use data, we show that a possible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449853
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Human capital and education policy : evidence from survey data
Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2021
investigates the impact of gender norms on labor-supply expectations of adolescents. Chapter 3 analyzes the effects of the Corona …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012600116