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Dessy, Sylvain - 2019

such as droughts can lower the opportunity cost of having children, and raise fertility. Using longitudinal household data … from Madagascar, we estimate the causal effect of drought occurrences on fertility, and explore the nature of potential …. Analyzing the mechanism, we find that droughts have no effect on common underlying factors of high fertility such as marriage …

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Fostering, Child Welfare, and Ethnic Cultural Values

Badaoui, Eliane - 2018

This article examines the effects of fostering on children's labour supply and schooling in host families in Niger. The focus is on the causal role of ethnic inherited cultural values and behaviours in perpetuating fostering. In particular, at the ethnic group level, we rely on the inherited...

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The Child Penalty Atlas

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...

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A Blessing or a Curse? The Long-Term Effect of Resource Booms on Human Capital

Mosquera, Roberto - 2019

Is natural resource abundance a blessing or a curse for a country? An important concern is the possibility that resource booms reduce human capital accumulation. These booms favor low-skill jobs, which increases the opportunity cost of education making it optimal for some cohorts to interrupt...

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Climate Change, Epidemics and Inequality

Archibong, Belinda; Annan, Francis - 2022

What are the links between climate change, epidemics and socioeconomic inequality? While recent epidemics have focused attention on the effects of epidemics on economic outcomes, and a separate literature in climate science and environmental health has linked global environmental change to...

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Meritocracy across countries

Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - 2024

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...

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Frühkindliche Bildung und spätere kognitive und nicht-kognitive Fähigkeiten: Deutsche und internationale Evidenz

Schlotter, Martin; Wößmann, Ludger - 2010

Kindergarten Kinder durchsetzungsfähiger machtund sie leichter Freundschaften schließen lässt. …

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The role of trade and offshoring in the determination of child labour

Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - 2015

Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce child labour in developing countries where the initial share of skilled workers in the adult workforce – though not as large as in developed countries – is nonetheless...

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Geography of skills and global inequality

Burzynski, Michal; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2018

This paper analyzes the factors underlying the evolution of the worldwide distribution of skills and their implications for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector, two-class, world economy model that endogenizes education and mobility decisions, population growth, and income...

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Population dynamics and economic growth : should we adopt different frameworks for poor and rich countries?

Brezis, Elise S. - 2011

children’s health. The main result of this paper is that the correlation between economic growth and fertility rates runs in … ; fertility rates …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517875

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