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New evidence on the causal link between the quantity and quality of children
Angrist, Joshua D. (contributor); Lavy, Victor (contributor) - 2006
the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this … from one subsample suggest that first-born girls from large families marry sooner. -- fertility ; quantity-quality trade … the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003309272
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New evidence on the causal link between the quantity and quality of children
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor; Schlosser, Analia - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003330129
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New evidence on the causal link between the quantity and quality of children
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor; Schlosser, Analia - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003236412
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Income distribution and macroeconomics revisited : the role of fertility adjustment
Nakagawa, Masao; Sugimoto, Yoshiaki - 2009
disturbances after childbirth. -- Fertility ; Lock-in effect ; Inequality ; Education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921823
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The longer-term effects of human capital enrichment programs on poverty and inequality : oportunidades in Mexico
McKee, Douglas; Todd, Petra - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 67-100
Previous empirical research has shown that Mexico's Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasing schooling and improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty and inequality of these children. It adapts methods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310737
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The Longer-Term Effects of Human Capital Enrichment Programs on Poverty and Inequality : Oportunidades in Mexico
McKee, Douglas - 2011
Previous empirical research has shown that Mexico's Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasing schooling and improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty and inequality of these children. It adapts methods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123007
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The economics of human cloning
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000
workers have a top ability if fertility is uncorrelated with ability and if the distribution of ability among sexually … necessarily eliminate inequality; nor does it disappear in the long run. Finally, if fertility is negatively correlated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001545534
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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills : is Latin America different?
López Bóo, Florencia - 2013
This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303243
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The one-child policy amplifies economic inequality across generations in China
Yu, Yewen; Fan, Yi; Yi, Junjian - 2020
, whose fertility choices are less constrained by the OCP than rich ones, have more children but invest less in human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270899
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Inequality in early care experienced by U.S. children
Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - 2021
Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624916