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Inequality Within the Family: Cases of Selective Parents in Post-War Hong Kong

Wong, Yi-Lee - In: Sociological Research Online 12 (2007) 5, pp. 15-15

While members of the same family are assumed to share similar mobility chances, this paper seeks to answer the following puzzle: why do only some children of the same family attain a level of education considered to be socially desirable whereas their siblings do not? The essence of an answer...

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Family size and intra-family inequalities in education in Ouagadougou

Lachaud, James; Adjiwanou, Visseho; Thomas LeGrand, K.; … - In: Demographic Research 31 (2014) 49, pp. 1455-1476

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The trade-off between child labour and schooling in India

Rammohan, Anu - In: Education economics 22 (2014) 5/6, pp. 484-510

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Parental disability and teenagers' time allocation

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021

addition, when examining the time spent by girls and boys in two-parent households, we find that the gender of the disabled … both the gender of the teen and of the disabled parent, with teen girls likely being worse off than teen boys. Our results … suggest that differences in teenagers' time investments are a plausible mechanism for gender differences in intergenerational …

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Long-term consequences of civil war in Tajikistan : the gendered impact on education and labor market outcomes

Shimizutani, Satoshi; Yamada, Eiji - In: Defence and peace economics 35 (2024) 1, pp. 72-85

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The impacts of secondary education reforms on schooling and income of women and men in the Philippines

Revilla, Ma Laarni D.; Estudillo, Jonna P. - 2022

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Indoor air pollution and gender difference in respiratory health and schooling for children in Cameroon

Bakehe, Novice Patrick - In: Review of social economy : the journal for the … 82 (2024) 2, pp. 294-315

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Human capital investment and the gender division of labor in a brawn-based economy

Pitt, Mark M.; Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Hassan, Nazmul - 2010

We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the … levels and returns to human capital investments. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect … of healthiness on wages, and the large effect of healthiness on schooling for females relative to males. The model …

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Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes: Evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese twins

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - 2012

development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …

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Women's status and child labour in Nepal

Nyyssölä, Milla - 2007

This paper uses data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey 2 (2003/2004) to find evidence to whether children are less likely to work and more likely to attend school in a household where the mother has a say in the intra-family decision-making, than in one where the father holds all the power....

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