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Measuring the quality of the home environment of young children in Uruguay : socioeconomic gradients in the home inventory

López Bóo, Florencia; Cubides, Mayaris; Sorio, Rita; … - 2019

shows that children from the most vulnerable families are exposed to a lower-quality home environment - that is, less … early childhood development. In 2015-2016, during the second wave of the survey, an observational module on the home … acceptance) of a widely used instrument that measures the quality of the physical and emotional environment: the HOME inventory …

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A family affair : job loss and the mental health of spouses and adolescents

Bubonya, Melisa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Wooden, Mark - 2014

This study examines the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of family members. Estimates from fixed-effects panel data models, using panel data for Australia, provide little evidence of any negative spillover effect on the mental health of husbands as a result of their wives' job...

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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...

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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020

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Divorce trends and patterns in the Western world: a socio-legal overview

Fahey, Tony - 2013

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Stochastic household forecasts by coherent random shares predictions

Keilman, Nico; Duin, Coen van - 2014 - This version 14 April 2014

We compute a stochastic household forecast for the Netherlands by the random share method. Time series of shares of persons in nine household positions, broken down by sex and five-year age group for the years 1996-2010 are modelled by means of the Hyndman-Booth-Yasmeen product-ratio variant of...

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Household responses to trade shocks

Irastorza-Fadrique, Aitor; Levell, Peter; Parey, Matthias - 2023

We use large-scale panel data from linked decadal censuses in England and Wales to study the responses of both individuals and their partners to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s. We test whether partners provide insurance against lost household earnings by increasing labour supply....

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Household responses to trade shocks

Irastorza-Fadrique, Aitor; Levell, Peter; Parey, Matthias - 2024

We study the impact of Chinese import competition in the 2000s on workers and their households in England and Wales. We document both the direct employment changes of individuals affected by trade exposure, as well as the employment response of individuals whose partner is exposed to trade. We...

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Single child families in Tripura : evidence from national family health surveys

Pautunthang, N.; Syamala, T. S. - 2019

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A closer look: proximity boosts homeless student performance in New York City

Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020

Proximity augments homeless students' educational outcomes. Homeless K-8 graders whose families are placed in shelters … proceed from novel administrative data on homeless families observed in the context of a scarcity-induced natural experiment …

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