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of their children using micro data from Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, 2008. Using the 2 SLS-IV estimation … health outcomes. Our Hausman test for endogeneity also confirms that health development of children is mediated through …
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In Uzbekistan, land is more appropriate for cultivating fruits and vegetables. Since independence, the government of Uzbekistan has implemented a number of agricultural policies such as making some crucial structural reforms at the farms, comprising different institutions and enhancing...
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In this paper, we develop a theoretical model that links the demand for telecare to the length of stay in hospital and formulate three models that can be used to derive the treatment effect by making various assumptions about the probability distribution of the outcome measure. We then fit the...
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A body of extant literature suggests that improvements in wellbeing and empowerment of women in the process of development are hindered by traditional social norms, which are often patriarchic. This paper investigates the link between traditional social norms and women’s status, in particular,...
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Die zentrale Stoßrichtung dieses Beitrages ist es, Wege für eine erfolgreiche Familienpolitik aufzuzeigen. Basierend auf einem 16-Ländersample und unter Zuhilfenahme des neuen MVQCA-Ansatzes werden unterschiedliche europäische familienpolitische Regulierungsmuster multivariat untersucht. Die...
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This article is devoted to investigation current demographic policy in Russia impact on fertility of different educational groups. Authors use qualitative and quantitative data. Quantitative data for this analysis come from the Gender and Generation Survey in Russia (2004, 2007, 2011 waves)....
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children of native-born parents. Yet, little is known about their relative non-cognitive performance. This study is the first … to compare the non-cognitive skills of children of Asian immigrants and children of native-born Australian parents and … between children of Asian immigrants and children of parents from other ethnicity groups. Furthermore, the nativity gaps in …
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Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational …
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Declining marriage rates and increasing cohabitation rates in modern Russia have become a trend that many scholars have … higher their probability of starting of the first cohabitation and the lower their risk to have the first marriage. Our … analysis showed that a cohabitation is not yet a complete alternative to marriage, but it has a possibility of becoming it for …
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for companies from China in period 2004-2011. We offer the evidence that, similarly to evidence from studies on reverse … mergers focusing on China, SPACs that focus on China are not different in their characteristics from other SPACs. We test for … the performance of the SPACs focused on China and show that their performance is not inferior to the performance of other …
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