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This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden … using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much … education. -- Child poverty ; neighbourhood ; Sweden …
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This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden … using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144399
resources in early childhood also affects the working of the local economy. Geographic variation in child care services … universal child care during a period of national reform to raise and equalize the child care coverage across Norway. We apply a … level data about quantity and quality of child care and various community controls. Given a reform driving the expansion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927191
resources in early childhood also affects the working of the local economy. Geographic variation in child care services … universal child care during a period of national reform to raise and equalize the child care coverage across Norway. We apply a … level data about quantity and quality of child care and various community controls. Given a reform driving the expansion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780592
We use new longitudinal census microdata to provide the first causal evidence of how gentrification affects a broad set of outcomes for original resident adults and children. Gentrification modestly increases out-migration, though movers are not made observably worse off and neighborhood change...
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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.OBJECTIVES: This paper analyzes the socioeconomic...
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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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show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for …
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I study whether the observed differences in intergenerational educational mobility across regions in Latin America and the Caribbean are due to the sorting of families or the effect of growing up in these different places. I exploit differences in the age of children at the time their families...
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show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262640