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Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia

Meghir, Costas; Attanasio, Orazio; Cattan, Sarah; … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2015

cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive …

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The Production of Child Health in Kenya: A Structural Model of Birth Weight

Mwabu, Germano - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2008

children. Newborn infants are heavier in urban than in rural areas and females are born lighter than males. There is evidence …

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The Gender and Generational Consquences of the Demographic Transition and Population Policy: An Assessment of the Micro and Macro Linkages

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2009

The demographic transition changes the age composition of a population, affecting resource allocations at the household and aggregate level. If age profiles of income, consumption, savings and investments were stable and estimable for the entire population, they might suggest how the demographic...

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The Fertility of the Irish in America in 1910

Guinnane, Timothy; Moehling, Carolyn; Grada, Cormac O - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2002

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of Ireland's late entry to the fertility transition focus on the influence of the Roman Catholic Church...

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Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocuation of Family Resources: Sophie's Choice in Mao's Mass Send Down Movement

Li, Hongbin; Rosenzweig, Mark; Zhang, Junsen - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2008

transfers to multiple children incorporating favoritism, altruism and guilt, we show the conditions under which guilt and … altruism can be separately identified by experimental variation in parental time with children. Based on within-twins estimates … of affected cohorts, we find that parents selected children with lower endowments to be sent down; that parents behaved …

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Human Resources in China: The Birth Quota, Returns to Schooling, and Migration

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2003

worse health, work later into their lives, and depend more on their children, lacking pensions and public services. The … with fewer children for support. Inequality in China is also be traced to increasing returns to schooling, especially …

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Population Policies, Fertility, Women's Human Capital, and Child Quality

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2007

investment in the human capital of children, although they occasionally estimate the short-run association with the adoption of …

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Fertility, Child Work and Schooling Consequences of Family Planning Programs: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Bangladesh

Sinha, Nistha - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2003

. The paper estimates the effect of mothers' program exposure on fertility and children's time allocation. The results show … that while the program was effective in reducing fertility, it had no significant impact on children's school enrollment …

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Eroding the Economic Foundations of Marriage and Fertility in the United States.

Schultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

currently married, and how many children they have. …

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The Impact of Institutional Reform 1979 Through 1987 on Fertility in Rural China.

Schultz, T.P.; Yi, Z. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

This empirical study brings together data on the local timing of the rural household responsability system reforms in China from 1970 through 1987 and assesses the association of the local reforms with individual parity-specific fertility changes as measured in the in-depth fertility survey....

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