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Low social mobility in Bolivia : causes and consequences for development

Andersen, Lykke E. - 2001

This paper investigates social mobility in Bolivia and discusses its implications for poverty reduction and long-run growth. Regressions based on household survey data show that social mobility is very low in Bolivia, even by Latin American standards. This is mainly caused by an inadequate...

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The toll of fertility on mothers’ wellb<eing

Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio; Simonsen, Marianne - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - 2010

In this paper we study the impact of fertility on the overall wellbeing of mothers First, using US Census data for the … total family income. The results using NHIS confirm a negative impact of fertility on marriage stability and an increase in …-up of private health insurance. Finally, we find evidence that a shock in fertility increases the likelihood for mothers to …

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Childrenś opportunities in Germany : an application using multidimensional measures

Bartels, Charlotte; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016

Single parents and unmarried couples are increasingly replacing the traditional nuclear family. This paper investigates if the greater variety in living arrangements contributes to increased resource disparities among children in Germany. Children in single parent families are disadvantaged in...

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Poverty and intra-household resource allocation in Surinamese households

Khadan, Jeetendra; Strobl, Eric; Tuffour, Theophiline - 2020

This paper examines the allocation of resources of poverty rates within households in Suriname. To this end we employ a bargaining model estimation framework that allows one to identify the allocation of resources across adult and children males and females. Our results using the Suriname...

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The Effect of Marital Breakup on the Income Distribution of Women with Children

Ananat, Elizabeth O.; Michaels, Guy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Having a female firstborn child significantly increases the probability that a woman’s first marriage breaks up. Recent work has exploited this exogenous variation to measure the effect of marital break-up on economic outcomes, and has concluded that divorce has little effect on women’s...

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Family disadvantage and the gender gap in behavioral and educational outcomes

Autor, David H.; Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztopf; … - 2016

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family disadvantage disproportionately impedes the pre-market development of boys. We find that, relative to their sisters, boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of...

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Socio-economic determinants of child marriage : evidence from the Iranian provinces

Asna-ashary, Mozhgan; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Feizi, … - 2020 - This version: 22.01.2020

We study the socio-economic determinants of child (girls below age of 19 years) marriage using a panel data of thirty Iranian provinces from 2007 to 2015. Our panel fixed effects and generalized method of moments (GMM) estimations show that the level of income per capita (with negative effect),...

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Kinderbetreuung : im Auftrag der Geschäftsstelle Gesamtevaluation der ehe- und familienbezogenen Leistungen in Deutschland

Rainer, Helmut; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Auer, Wolfgang; … - 2013 - Dezember 2011

Im Rahmen der vom Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ) und vom Bundesministerium der Finanzen (BMF) in Auftrag gegebenen Gesamtevaluation von zentralen ehe- und familienbezogenen Leistungen wurden in der vorliegenden Studie die Auswirkungen öffentlich...

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Sharing the Pie : Undernutrition, Intra-Household Allocation, and Poverty

Brown, Caitlin - 2018

Anti-poverty policies often aim to reach poor individuals by targeting poor households. However, intra-household inequality may mean many poor individuals reside in non-poor households. Using Bangladeshi data, we first show that undernourished individuals are spread across the household...

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Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes

Autor, David H. - 2016

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 – 2002, we assess whether family disadvantage disproportionately impedes the pre-market development of boys. We find that, relative to their sisters, boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988233

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