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Using data from two representative Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine the change in son preference over the past three decades and its effects on Pakistani women's fertility. We analyse a number of indicators and employ different empirical methods to come up with strong and persistent...
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children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold … bargaining power within the household, leading to improved parental investments for children. These study findings are also … compatible with the notion that children do better when their mothers control a more significant fraction of the family resources …
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disruptions early in life can be long-lasting. Although there is evidence about the effects of school closures on older children …, there is currently no evidence on such losses for children in their early years. This paper is among the first to quantify … the actual impact of pandemic-related closures on child development, in this case for a sample of young children in Chile …
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This paper illustrates the intergenerational transmission of the gender gap in education among first and second-generation immigrants. Using the Current Population Survey (1994-2018), we find that the difference in female-male education persists from the home country to the new environment. A...
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children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of their children from the German Socio …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …
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children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of their children from the German Socio …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079165
children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of their children from the German Socio …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775642
differences in the age of children at the time their families move across locations to isolate regional childhood exposure effects … from sorting. I find a convergence rate of 3.5% per year of exposure between age 1 to 11, implying that children who move …
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that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …
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Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage …'s life and the importance accorded by the individual to formal schooling for children. The correlation is robust to … education of Roma children need to reckon with the influence of Roma community norms on individual choices. …
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