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Intra-Household Insurance and the Intergenerational Transmission of Income Risk

Agostinelli, Francesco; Ferraro, Domenico; Qiu, Xincheng; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or not work at all, time spent with children, and...

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The fertility transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: the role of structural change

Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2022

Despite relatively sustained economic growth in at least parts of Sub-Saharan Africa over the past twenty years, the fertility transition has not much advanced in most countries in that region. We explore whether the lack of structural change can explain this slow transition. For this end, we...

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Child labor, rainfall shocks, and financial inclusion : evidence from rural households

Bernal, Carolina; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2023

inter-temporal trade-off between current household income and future potential earnings. Financial inclusion may mitigate or …

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Human capital investments and expectations about career and family

Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016

earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive … large “returns" to human capital not only in their own future earnings, but also in a number of other dimensions (such as … future labor supply and potential spouse's earnings). In a recent follow-up survey conducted six years after the initial data …

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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households

Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018

We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants' households and that it caused lower probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts...

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Gender inequality as a barrier to economic growth : a review of the theoretical literature

Klasen, Stephan; Santos Silva, Manuel - 2018 - This version: August 19, 2018

In this article, we survey the theoretical literature investigating the role of gender inequality in economic development. The vast majority of theories reviewed suggest that gender inequality is a barrier to development, particularly over the long run. Among the many plausible mechanisms...

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Genes, legitimacy and hypergamy : another look at the economics of marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...

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Entitled to property: inheritance laws, female bargaining power, and child health in India

Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2021

Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the effects of an inheritance law change, the Hindu...

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Substitution between individual and cultural capital : pre-migration labor supply, culture and US labor market outcomes among immigrant woman

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2011

country female labor supply. We obtain broadly similar effects analyzing the determinants of hourly earnings among the …

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Extended income inequality and poverty dynamics of labour market and household activities : a ten years microanalysis with the German socio-economic panel

Merz, Joachim; Kirsten, Dagmar - 1998

Labour market dynamics according the individual working hour tension (preferred working hours minus actual working hours) of active people with focus on the self-employed, as professions and entrepreneurs, and employees are investigated in our study. The individual longitudinal analysis based on...

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