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(Why) do self-employed parents have more children?
Broussard, Nzinga; Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory - 2003
respondents have approximately .2 to .4 more actual and expected number of children if they are self-employed as compared to if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404319
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The impact of child health and family inputs on child cognitive development
Kaestner, Robert - 1995
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Effects of work-related absences on families : evidence from the Gulf War
Angrist, Joshua D.; Johnson, John H. - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000672842
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The more things change : immigrants and the children of immigrants in the 1940s, the 1970s, and the 1990s
Card, David E.; DiNardo, John E.; Estes, Eugena - 1998
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The quantity-quality trade-off and the formation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills
Juhn, Chinhui; Rubinstein, Yona; Zuppann, C. Andrew - 2015
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Family patterns and social inequality among children in the United States 1940-2012 : a re-assessment
Fahey, Tony - 2015
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By what measure? : family time devoted to children in the U.S.
Folbre, Nancy; Yoon, Jayoung; Finnoff, Kade; Fuligni, … - 2004
conceptualization of care time. Three separate problems are evident. First, the conventional focus on explicit activities with children … distracts attention from the larger responsibilities of "passive" care, which ranges from time when children are sleeping to … the amount of parental care that children in single-parent and two-parent households receive. …
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Is there still son preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - revised, October 2019
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the United States. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119937
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Is there still son preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - Revised, October 2019
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the United States. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124840