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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.OBJECTIVES: This paper analyzes the socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840457
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Childhood determinants of internal youth migration in Senegal
Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 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. OBJECTIVES: This paper analyzes the socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178292
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The temporal stability of children's neighborhood experiences : a follow-up from birth to age 15
Kleinepier, Tom; Ham, Maarten van - 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/10011641490
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Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life
Aizer, Anna; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021
their mothers may be less mature, have fewer financial resources when the child is young, and may partner with fathers of … ages. Our evidence suggests that the causal effect of being a child of a teen mother is much smaller than that implied by … negative selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315217
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Grandparents, moms, or dads? why children of teen mothers do worse in life
Aizer, Anna; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020
their mothers may be less mature, have fewer financial resources when the child is young, and may partner with fathers of … ages. Our evidence suggests that the causal effect of being a child of a teen mother is much smaller than that implied by … negative selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296522
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Grandparents, mothers, or fathers? : why children of teen mothers do worse in life
Aizer, Anna; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2019
their mothers may be less mature, have fewer financial resources when the child is young, and may partner with fathers of … ages. Our evidence suggests that the causal effect of being a child of a teen mother is much smaller than that implied by … selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990921
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Experienced and Inherited Disadvantage : A Longitudinal Study of Early Adulthood Neighbourhood Careers of Siblings
Manley, David - 2018
Longer term exposure to high poverty neighbourhoods can affect individual socio-economic outcomes later in life. Previous research has shown strong path dependence in individual neighbourhood histories. A growing literature shows that the neighbourhood histories of people is linked to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926709
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The Temporal Dynamics of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood and Subsequent Problem Behavior in Adolescence
Kleinepier, Tom - 2018
Research on neighborhood effects has increasingly focused on how long children have lived in a deprived neighborhood during childhood (duration), but has typically ignored when in childhood the exposure occurred (timing) and whether circumstances were improving or deteriorating (sequencing)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923228
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The temporal dynamics of neighborhood disadvantage in childhood and subsequent problem behavior in adolescence
Kleinepier, Tom; Ham, Maarten van - 2018
Research on neighborhood effects has increasingly focused on how long children have lived in a deprived neighborhood during childhood (duration), but has typically ignored when in childhood the exposure occurred (timing) and whether circumstances were improving or deteriorating (sequencing)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814878
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Experienced and inherited disadvantage : a longitudinal study of early adulthood neighbourhood careers of siblings
Manley, David; Ham, Maarten van; Hedman, Lina - 2018
Longer term exposure to high poverty neighbourhoods can affect individual socio-economic outcomes later in life. Previous research has shown strong path dependence in individual neighbourhood histories. A growing literature shows that the neighbourhood histories of people is linked to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798188