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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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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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The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...
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Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find …. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as the correlations among siblings are significantly higher than among children …
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School quality is hard to define and measure. It is influenced by not only school expenditures, but also characteristics that are hard to measure like norms and peer effects among teachers and pupils. Furthermore, family background and community characteristics are important in explaining...
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The objective of this paper is to make available information - precisely and spatially detailed - about families … families across six different dimensions, detailed for the country, states, municipalities and intraurban detail. Results … indicate that Brazilian families' vulnerability reduced by nearly 20% in the period on average. This behavior, however, is …
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determined. Finally, the paper underlines the way in which these features of business and politics strengthen elite families in …
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In this paper, I will describe in detail both the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit in the U.S., including their origins, their structure, and the effects they have on the labor market and family formation. I will then discuss the macroeconomic implications of U.S. welfare...
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Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny,...
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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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