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The present study investigates the relationship between the number of children in the household and mothers and fathers … children in the household and the propensity of these non-entrepreneurs to become and remain business owners from 2005 to 2016 …. For both sexes, the results show a positive and linear relationship between the number of children at home and business …
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writing and math and logical reasoning. The amount of time mothers spend with children is always greater than fathers but … changes over the life cycle of the children. In fact, the time mothers spend with children decreases as the child grows up and … is greater with daughters, while the reverse is true of fathers. The estimates show that the impact of mothers’ and …
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We use a unique data set of linked birth records from Florida to analyze the intergenerational transmission of health at birth by parental gender. We show that both paternal and maternal birth weights significantly predict the child's birth weight, even after accounting for all genetic and...
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The purpose of the ASER 2009’s rapid assessment survey in rural areas is twofold: (i) to get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to measure the change in these basic learning and...
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Uganda. The original study found that the willingness to pay (WTP) of fathers for different goods for their daughters was …
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Using a rich panel data set from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we test whether spouses who are similar to each other in certain respects have a lower probability of divorce than dissimilar spouses. We focus on the effect of homogamy with respect to education and church attendance. Gary...
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