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Parents invest in their children’s human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …Eltern investieren in ihre Kinder auf unterschiedliche Weise. Wir untersuchen wie das Ausmaß und die Zusammensetzung …. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score …
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ication of a poverty line or particular poverty measures . The paper introduces three alternative principles of targeting …
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constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of constitutional language of the economic and social rights matter … important results. First, we do not find an association between constitutional rights generally framed and poverty. Second, we … do not find an association between economic and social rights framed as directive principles and poverty. Third, we do …
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This paper tries to make a comparative study of poverty reduction in India and China during 1990s. This study could … find that there are many factors in common between these two countries in their road to poverty reduction. It has been … observed that in both India and China the absolute poverty levels have fallen ever since the liberalization process has started …
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Using large samples of persons born in 1985 we investigate the relationship between characteristics of the neighbourhood where young people lived as adolescents and the probability that they will receive social assistance when aged 19, 20, and 21, for the three Swedish metropolitan regions -...
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This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of several data sets (the International Social Survey...
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Since 2004, Ireland has included in its system of social welfare payments criteria for receipt which limit the extent to which immigrants can receive welfare payments. In this paper, we compare the rates of receipt of welfare for immigrants and natives to see if the outcome is consistent with...
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INSEE (Paris) in 1982, 1990, and 1999. Our estimates show that, in general, migrants live more frequently in social housing … than French natives, other observables being equal. In particular, this probability is higher for migrants from Turkey …, Morocco, Southeast Asia, Algeria, Tunisia and Sub-Saharan Africa (in descending order). We find also that migrants of all …
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