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Don't leave your kid unattended? : sex differences in children's competitiveness in presence of their guardian

Ortiz-Merchán, Silvia; Lee-Ocampo, María José; … - SEE Research Group - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 112 (2024), pp. 1-16

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Educational hypogamy is associated with a smaller child penalty on women's earnings

Steiber, Nadia; Lebedinski, Lara; Liedl, Bernd; … - 2024

This study contributes to the literature on how parenthood affects the within-couple gender earnings gap. It examines how this "child penalty" on women's earnings varies with the education level of both partners and the woman's relative education within the couple. Using Austrian register data...

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Measurement and analysis of child well-being in middle and high income countries

Heshmati, Almas (contributor); … - 2007

Starting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide audience in the political and scientific world, in this paper we further analyze the UNICEF study data base and present three composite indices that are multidimensional and...

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How interethnic marriages affect the educational attainment of children : evidence from a natural experiment

Ours, Jan C. van (contributor); Veenman, Justus (contributor) - 2008

The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to estimate the causal effect of interethnic marriages on the...

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The effects on stature of poverty, family size and birth order : British children in the 1930s

Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor); … - 2008

This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in Interwar Britain. It uses the Boyd Orr cohort, a survey of predominantly poor families taken in 1937-9, which provides a unique opportunity to explore the determinants of child...

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How unilateral divorce affects children

Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio (contributor); … - 2008

Using U.S. Census data for the years 1960-1980, we study the impact of unilateral divorce on outcomes of children (age 6-15) and their mothers. We find that the reform increased mothers' divorce, decreased family income and increased the fraction of mothers below the poverty line. For children,...

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Civil wars beyond their borders : the human capital and health consequences of hosting refugees

Baez, Javier E. (contributor) - 2008

Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and thousands were forcibly uprooted from their homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a...

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Does more mean better? : Sibling sex composition and the link between family size and children's quality

Baez, Javier E. (contributor) - 2008

Exogenous variation in fertility from parental preferences for sex-mix among their children is used to identify the causal effect of family size on several measures associated with either the allocation of resources towards children within the household or the outcomes of these investments....

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Die fiskalische Bilanz eines Kindes im deutschen Steuer- und Sozialsystem : Studie im Auftrag der Robert Bosch Stiftung

Werding, Martin; Hofmann, Herbert - 2005

sich auf ein im Jahre 2000 geborenes Kind beziehen, dieses über seinen gesamten Lebenszyklus verfolgen und auch die Effekte … Bildungsausgaben, die ein Kind während seiner Kindheits- und Jugendphase in Anspruch nimmt, Steuern und Sozialbeiträge, die es während … Modellrechnungen angestellt, die sich auf ein im Jahre 2000 geborenes Kind beziehen, dieses über seinen gesamten Lebenszyklus verfolgen …

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Assimilation and other determinants of school attainment in Germany : do immigrant children perform as well as Germans?

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Büchel, Felix; Wagner, Gert G. - 1996

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