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Child support enforcement and child mortality
Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Noghani, Farzaneh; Tavassoli, Nahid - In: Applied economics letters 29 (2022) 5, pp. 391-402
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Can economic incentives for joint custody harm children of divorced parents? : evidence from state variation in child support laws
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer; Sun, Hugette - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 189 (2021), pp. 1-27
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The impact of child support on child health
Baughman, Reagan A. - In: Review of Economics of the Household 15 (2017) 1, pp. 69-91
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Can reduced child support make joint custody bad for children? : the role of economic incentives in U.S. divorce law on child outcomes
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer; Sun, Hugette - 2018
This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some states require no child support in joint custody cases,...
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Does early-life health enhance growth? : evidence from Spain
Blázquez-Fernández, C.; Cantarero-Prieto, D.; Pérez, … - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 10/12, pp. 860-864
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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents...
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A reversal in the relationship of human development with fertility?
Harttgen, Kenneth; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2012 - First version: May 2012, This Version: June 2012
For more than a hundred years, advances in development were associated with decreasing fertility rates. This led to … total fertility rates far below replacement level in most developed countries. However, during the last decade fertility … human development index (HDI) with the total fertility rate (TFR) reverses from negative (increases in HDI are associated …
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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238369
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Maternal health care : the case of iron supplementation in India
Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Raza, Muhammad Ali - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 7 (2013) 2, pp. 263-275
Prenatal care is an essential segment of maternal health-care. In this paper an attempt has been made to examine the socioeconomic determinants of maternal iron supplementation and sufficient maternal iron supplementation as components of prenatal care. Micro-data having 25999 and 19764...
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