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-market opportunities on sleep patterns; the effect of having children; the consequences of the decreased division of labor within the …
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We analyze the effects of the Child Tax Credit and the Child Care and Development Fund, two major family policies in the United States, in an overlapping-generations framework where altruistic parents invest in their child’s skill using parent time and purchased childcare. We incorporate...
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, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …
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The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
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Early life shocks result in physiological changes that allow infants and children to adapt to surrounding environments … educational attainment if children are later re-exposed. Our findings highlight the importance of capturing the critical tradeoffs …
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …
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Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children …, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome di- mension. Second, we apply a semi …
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Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children …, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354544
Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children …, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257598
Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children …, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312614