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The Well-Being of Young Canadian Children in International Perspective.

Phipps, S. - 1999

The goal of this paper is to compare the well-being of young children in Canada, Norway and the United States. Many … economic models focus on children's eventual well-being by adopting an investment perspective. While this is important …, children's well-being today should also count when we assess social welfare --after all, children constitute one quarter of the …

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Les determinants du travail des enfants en Inde.

Labenne, S. - Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de … - 1996

Dans cette etude, nous nous attacherons au probleme de l'Inde, detentrice du triste record du nombre d'enfants au travail. Ce sujet tres vaste a deja ete etudie par un grand nombre d'auteurs mais rares sont ceux qui se sont specifiquement attaches a la source du probleme, c'est-a-dire aux...

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A Quantitative Analysis of Swedish Fertility Dynamics: 1751-1990

Eckstein, Z.; Mira, P.; Wolpin, K.I. - Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) - 1997

This paper analyzes the relationship between age-specific fertility, mortality and real wages in Sweden during the demographic transition. We take an overlapping generations model of life cycle fertility and fit it to actual Swedish time-series data over the past two and a half centuries. The...

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The Effects of Teenage Fertility on Young Adult Childbearing.

Ribar, D.C. - Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University - 1995

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Labor Supply Effects of State Maternity Leave Legislation.

Klerman, J.; Leibowitz, A. - Labor and Population Program, RAND - 1995

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Non-cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Simonsen, Marianne - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2007

Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide evidence of the effects on non-cognitive child outcomes of participating in large scale publicly...

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Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work and Fertility

Fernández, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We study the effect of culture on important economic outcomes by using the 1970 Census to examine the work and fertility behaviour of women 30-40 years old, born in the US, but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labour force participation and total fertility rates from the...

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Wealth: Crucial but Not Sufficient Evidence from Pakistan on Economic Growth, Child Labor, and Schooling

Hou, Xiaohui - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

The relationship between wealth and child labor has been widely examined. This paper uses three rounds of time-series, cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling. The paper finds that wealth is crucial in determining a child's activities, but...

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Single Mothers Working at Night: Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform

Tekin, Erdal - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004

This paper estimates the effect of child care subsidies on the standard work decision of single mothers and examines whether this effect differs between welfare recipients and nonrecipients. The analysis uses data from the 1999 National Survey of America's Families. Results suggest that child...

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Work and Family Balance: An Economic View

Fursman, Lindy; Jacobsen, Veronica; Varuhas, Jason - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2003

The way in which people balance their work and family responsibilities is becoming increasingly prominent on the policy agenda. This paper uses an economic framework to explore the rationale for government policies to improve work/family balance. It finds that strongest economic grounds for...

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