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Restrictions on migration create gender inequality : the story of China's left-behind children
Gao, Xuwen; Liang, Wenquan; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; … - 2022
About 11% of the Chinese population are rural-urban migrants, and the vast majority of them (124 million people) possess a rural hukou which severely restrict their children's access to urban public schools. As a result, 61 million children are left behind in rural areas. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013389166
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Ocean salinity, early-life health, and adaptation
Guimbeau, Amanda; Ji, James; Long, Zi; Menon, Nidhiya - 2023
We study the effects of in utero exposure to climate change induced high ocean salinity levels on children's anthropometric outcomes. Leveraging six geo-referenced waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys merged with gridded data on ocean salinity, ocean chemistry and weather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014366593
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Neighbourhood child poverty in Sweden
Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - 2010
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 larger in 2002 than in 1990, but also that most poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274072
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Neighbourhood child poverty in Sweden
Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - 2010
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 larger in 2002 than in 1990, but also that most poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958740
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Childhood Determinants of Internal Youth Migration in Senegal
Herrera, Catalina - 2020
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 …: Using a unique migration household survey in Senegal, we estimate multinomial logit models to analyze the role of childhood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840457
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The Temporal Stability of Children's Neighborhood Experiences : A Follow-Up from Birth to Age 15
Kleinepier, Tom - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958048
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Job location decisions and the effect of children on the employment gender gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an eventstudy design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013258938
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Neighbourhood Child Poverty in Sweden
Gustafsson, Björn - 2010
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 larger in 2002 than in 1990, but also that most poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144399
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Does it Matter Where You Grow up? Childhood Exposure Effects in Latin America and the Caribbean
Munoz, Ercio - 2021
high migration outflows, instrumenting the choice of destination with historical migration, and a combination of both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313153
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Job location decisions and the effect of children on the employment gender gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an event-study design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262640