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On the quantity and quality of girls : new evidence on abortion, fertility, and parental investments
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016
The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys, and the relative chances of girls surviving...
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The uncertain lifetime and the timing of human capital investment
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - In: Journal of population economics 21 (2008) 3, pp. 557-572
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Late fertility : its causal effects on health of the newborn and its implications in fertility decision process
Vandresse, Marie - 2008
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Do children in India benefit from having mothers woh are literate?
Borooah, Vani K. - 2001
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Parental educational similarity and infant health in Chile : evidence from administrative records, 1990-2015
Abufhele, Alejandra; Castro Torres, Andrés Felipe; … - 2021
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Parental education and increased child survival in Madagascar : what can we say?
Badji, Samia - In: Feminist economics 28 (2022) 1, pp. 142-169
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Parental Mortality and Outcomes among Minor and Adult Children
Weaver, David - 2019
document outcomes among individuals with deceased parents. I focus first on minors and find that about 2 million children in … orphan population in the United States. Relative to children with both parents living, these maternal and paternal orphans …
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Parental Unemployment and Child Health in China
Pieters, Janneke - 2016
certain health investments, including children's diets. Our results support the notion that traditional gender roles can …
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Heterogeneous parental impacts on infant health outcome
Tracey, Marlon R.; Belasen, Ariel R. - In: Applied economics letters 27 (2020) 6, pp. 461-465
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Can Sons Reduce Parental Mortality?
Pham-Kanter, Genevieve; Goldman, Noreen - 2013
Background: Although sons are thought to impose greater physiological costs on mothers than daughters, sons may be advantageous for parental survival in some social contexts. We examined the relationship between the sex composition of offspring and parental survival in contemporary China and...
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