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Effects of housing transfer taxes on household mobility
Eerola, Essi; Harjunen, Oskari; Lyytikäinen, Teemu; … - 2019
Housing transfer taxes are fiscally important in many countries despite evidence of substantial welfare losses found in several quasi-experimental studies. Research designs used in this prior literature are prone to attenuation bias due to spillovers from mobility or trading across control and...
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Childhood migration and educational attainment : evidence from Indonesia
Schwank, Hanna M. - 2024 - This version: June 18, 2024
in the age of migration, I analyze the impact of destination quality on the educational outcomes of childhood internal … probabilities of completing primary and secondary schooling. Moreover, educational outcomes of migrants converge with those of … more from additional exposure. My findings suggest substantial heterogeneity of returns to childhood migration with respect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014553034
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Parental migration, investment in children, and children's non-cognitive development : evidence from rural China
Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019
the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149247
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The Effect of Parental Migration on the Schooling of Children Left Behind in Rural Cambodia
Marchetta, Francesca; Sim, Sokcheng - 2020
Growing rural-to-urban and international migration flows have sparked concerns about investments in the education of left-behind children in Cambodia. We drew on a panel household-level survey conducted in rural villages in 2014 and 2017 to analyze the relationship between parental migration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014094511
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Access to public schools and the education of migrant children in China
Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang - 2012
A significant proportion of migrant children in China are not able to attend public schools for lack of local household registration (HuKou), and turn to privately-operated migrant schools. This paper examines the consequences of such a partially involuntary school choice, using survey data and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621763
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Household migration and child educational attainment : the case of Uganda
Ferrone, Lucia; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2015
In many Sub-Saharan African countries, a large number of people migrate internally or abroad because of demographic, economic and political factors. This pronounced mobility is likely to have consequences for child education, which is still a matter of concern in the region. We study this issue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498497
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Impact of Paternal Temporary Absence on Children Left Behind
Booth, Alison L. - 2009
Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155610
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Elder Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children : Evidence from Rural China
Giles, John - 2006
Recent research has shown that participation in migrant labor markets has led to substantial increases in income for families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are less likely to work as migrants when a parent is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783694
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When the Cat's Away... The Effects of Spousal Migration on Investments on Children
Rizzica, Lucia - 2014
This paper analyzes the effects of parental migration on children left behind in order to understand whether and how the effects of migration on children depend on which of their parents migrates. I describe the migration of one of the spouses as a sequential game in which the spouse who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057792
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Household Migration and Child Educational Attainment : The Case of Uganda
Ferrone, Lucia - 2015
In many Sub-Saharan African countries, a large number of people migrate internally or abroad because of demographic, economic and political factors. This pronounced mobility is likely to have consequences for child education, which is still a matter of concern in the region. We study this issue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025330