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Gender differences in time allocation of poor children in Colombia

Gallego, Juan Miguel; Sepulveda, Carlos E. - UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO - 2011

§erences in labor and schooling across children within the same household, with an application to gender. When families are … one who works more as a child. We use our theory to examine the gender gap in child labor. Using a sample of poor families … gender gap is largely explained by the wage gap between girls and boys. Moreover, families with the potential to make capital …

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Improving the Design of Conditional Transfer Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Education Experiment in Colombia

Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Bertrand, Marianne; Linden, Leigh L. - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3 (2011) 2, pp. 167-95

Using a student level randomization, we compare three education-based conditional cash transfers designs: a standard design, a design where part of the monthly transfers are postponed until children have to re-enroll in school, and a design that lowers the reward for attendance but incentivizes...

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Modelling demographic behaviours in the French microsimulation model Destinie: An analysis of future change in completed fertility

ROBERT-BOBEE, I. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2001

Future change in partnerships and fertility are not easy to forecast. However, the fertility of the youngest cohorts will depend on those behaviours. The way young people start a partnership has changed a lot during the past three decades. Many couples are now unmarried, union disruptions and...

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Microsimulation of demographic behaviours using 2 alternative data sources

ROBERT-BOBÉE, I. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2002

A microsimulation of demographic behaviours using the 1997 Insee Survey about Young People and Job Histories (Robert-Bobée 2001) leads to the following results: if demographic behaviours remain the same as the ones observed in 1995-1996, completed fertility may decrease to less than 2 children...

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Female labor supply and child care

CHONE, P.; BLANC, D. LE; ROBERT-BOBEE, I. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2002

We use household income tax data to estimate a structural model of female labor supply and utilization of paid child care outside the home. We find that child care costs have little impact on the participation decision of mothers of young children. However, they influence hours of work, as well...

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Divorce laws and fertility decisions

Bellido, Héctor; Marcén, Miriam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper explores the effect of divorce law reform on fertility. By modifying the value of marriage, the adoption of no-fault and unilateral divorce may impact fertility decisions. To identify the effects of those reforms on fertility, we use a quasi experiment exploiting the legislative...

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Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This research suggests that the evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human history....

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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity-quality trade-off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses--1816, 1849,...

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Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers

Ichino, Andrea; Lindström, Elly-Ann; Viviano, Eliana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why women in these countries react in this way to the sex of their first child, which is chosen...

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Corrigendum: Sex Selection and Gender Balance

Bhaskar, V. - In: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 3 (2011) 2, pp. 252-53

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