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DaVanzo, J.; Pebley, A.R. - Labor and Population Program, RAND - 1993

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Child Mortality in Malaysia, 1950-1988.

Lillard, L.A.; Panis, C.W.A. - Labor and Population Program, RAND - 1993

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The Effect of Marital Breakup on the Income Distribution of Women with Children

Ananat, Elizabeth O.; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

, divorce significantly increases the odds that a woman with children is poor. …

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An analysis of the significant variation in psychostimulant use across the U.S.

Bokhari, Farasat A.S.; Mayes, Rick; Scheffler, Richard M. - Department of Economics, Florida State University - 2003

Objective: To provide a county-level profile of the area variation in psychostimulant use in the U.S. Methods: We sepa-rated 3,030 U.S. counties into two categories of “low” and “high” use of ADHD drugs (based on data from the Drug Enforce-ment Administration, DEA), and then compared...

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Household resources, household composition, and child nutritional outcomes

Cameron, Michael P.; Lim, Steven - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2007

members to urban locations in search of employment. Children may be left in the care of their mother alone, or in the care of … grandparents when both parents have migrated. Using representative data from rural Northeast Thailand, this paper investigates … whether household composition has any effect on the nutritional outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that household …

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The Early Bird gets the Worm? Birth Order Effects in a Dynamic Model of the Family

Gugl, Elisabeth; Welling, Linda - Department of Economics, University of Victoria - 2007

children provides this. Each child has the same genetic make-up and parents do not favour a child based on its birth order … developmental stages, and the benefits of parental investment differ across these stages. Parental time investment in children …

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AN ECONOMIC MODEL OF WIC, THE INFANT FORMULA REBATE PROGRAM, AND THE RETAIL PRICE OF INFANT FORMULA

Prell, Mark A. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2004

Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and its infant formula rebate program. Special attention is given to …

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FOOD STAMP BENEFITS AND CHILD POVERTY IN THE 1990s

Jolliffe, Dean; Tiehen, Laura; Gundersen, Craig; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2003

In 2000, 8.8 million children received food stamps, making the Food Stamp Program a crucial component of the social … safety net. Despite its importance, little research has examined the effect of food stamps on children's overall well …

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Balancing Work and Family Life during the Life Course

Bovenberg, A. - In: De Economist 153 (2005) 4, pp. 399-423

parents of young children to easily enter and remain in the labor market. Finally, more activating social assistance and in …

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The Challenge of Child Labour in Rural India: A Multi-Dimensional Problem in Need of an Orchestrated Policy Response.

Chaudhri, D.P.; Wilson, E.J. - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2000

This paper is an attempt to provide a tentative framework for an objective, factual and systematic look at important dimensions of the child labour problem in rural India.

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