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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037965
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026021
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2020
phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419034
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Do Family Policies Affect Births, Maternal Employment and Marital Stability?
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Malkova, Olga - 2021
their young children longer, the conflict between women’s dual roles as full-time worker and full-time mother is reduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234563
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The twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that their occurrence is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence challenging this premise. Using data on about 18 million births in 72 countries, we find that maternal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577906
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Mothers' care : reversing early childhood health shocks through parental investments
Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Cabrales, Antonio; … - 2019
their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956317
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The twin instrument : fertility and human capital investment
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018
impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925159
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Does mother know best? : parental discrepancies in assessing child functioning
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Lausten, Mette; Pozzoli, Dario - 2012
We investigate the degree of correspondence between parents' reports on child behavioral and educational outcomes using … the most recent available wave of a rich Danish longitudinal survey of children (the DALSC). All outcomes are measured at … age 11 when the children are expected to be in fifth grade. Once discrepancies are detected, we analyze whether they are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656611
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The twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data for more than 18 million births (more than 500,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594542
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Does Mother Know Best? Parental Discrepancies in Assessing Child Functioning
Datta Gupta, Nabanita - 2012
We investigate the degree of correspondence between parents' reports on child behavioral and educational outcomes using … the most recent available wave of a rich Danish longitudinal survey of children (the DALSC). All outcomes are measured at … age 11 when the children are expected to be in fifth grade. Once discrepancies are detected, we analyze whether they are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098462