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This paper examines the effects of in-utero exposure to stress on lifelong labor market outcomes. We exploit a unique natural experiment that involved randomly placed Nazi raids on municipalities in Italy during WWII. We use administrative data on the universe of private sector workers in Italy...
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children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for children's schooling in the U.S. Recent … as much as father's schooling for children's schooling. We also estimate the effect of parents' schooling separately by …
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gender composition of last-born children produced by sex-selective stopping behavior. The findings indicate a way in which …
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We study the relationship between maternal education and children's well-being in four Pacific countries. We exploit … underlying mechanisms. We find that the number of years of schooling attained by mothers is positively correlated with the … likelihood of children being overweight and the Early Childhood Development Index (ECDI) score, while it is negatively associated …
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generations on a child's cognitive development. Using data from China, we find that children living in multigenerational families … school children, but not for middle school children. However, children who live only with their parents and children who live … only with their grandparents (the left-behind children) do not show a significant difference in their cognitive performance …
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generations on a child's cognitive development. Using data from China, we find that children living in multigenerational families … school children, but not for middle school children. However, children who live only with their parents and children who live … only with their grandparents (the left-behind children) do not show a significant difference in their cognitive performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867985
the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent …
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This paper examines the extent to which the Great Recession affected gender composition at birth. We focus on ethnic minorities in the US known for a son preference - Chinese, Indians, and Koreans. Using the DID method, we find that in response to the Great Recession, the fraction of newborn...
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Under the tender years doctrine in effect until the 1970's, custody was virtually always awarded to the mother upon divorce. Gender-neutral custody laws introduced beginning in the 1970's provided married fathers, in principle, equal rights to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended...
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This paper empirically tests for two competing explanations of the increasing sex ratio at birth (SRB) in India: hepatitis B and human intervention. Estimating a male- preferring stopping rule with data from three rounds of the National Family Health Survey in India (1992, 1998 and 2005), I find...
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