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Although the strong positive correlation between parental educational expectations (PEE) and child academic achievement is widely documented, little is known about PEE's effects on child psychological outcomes and the mechanisms through which it may work. Hence, in this paper, using nationally...
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We analyze the effect of having a child in adolescence on high school completion, educational attainment, and college enrollment in a developing country setting using nine repeated rounds of Chilean household surveys that span the 1990-2009 period. We control for selection bias and household...
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the reform are consistent with hypotheses related to the improved financial situation of new mothers after the reform and …
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assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of … drawn from SHARE, we show that although marriage has a negative effect on women's employment (3.3%), its magnitude is much … marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood. …
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in Chile. Using eight rounds of household surveys, we find that adolescents who were born to teen mothers, those that … live in poor households and in single-mother families, are more likely to have children, while access to full-time high …
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likelihood that adolescent girls become mothers. By increasing the number of hours spent in school, the reform curtails … mothers. We find that access to full-day schools reduces the probability of becoming an adolescent mother among poor families …
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This article investigates whether increasing secondary education opportunities influences childbearing among young women in Brazil. We examine a novel dataset reflecting the vast expansion of secondary education in Brazil between 1997 and 2009 and exploit variation in the introduction of schools...
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Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the … literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many … of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This study focuses on Syrian refugee children in Turkey and examines the …
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Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is wellstudied in the … literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many … of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This study focuses on Syrian refugee children in Turkey and examines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625113
for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. …
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