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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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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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Do Population Control Policies Induce More Human Capital Investment? Twins, Birthweight, and China's 'One Child' Policy

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2006

In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade …-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects … schooling progress, the expected college enrollment, grades in school and the assessed health of all children in the family. We …

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Inequality in the Distribution of Personal Income in the World: How it is Changing and Why.

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

The variance in the logarithms of per capita GDP in purchasing power-parity prices increased in the world form 1960 to 1968 and decreased since the mid 170s. In the later period the convergence in intercountry incomes more than offset any increase in within country inequality. Approximately...

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Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences in Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from the Birthweight Differences of Chinese Twins

Zhang, Junsen; Rosenzweig, Mark - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2012

Data from two surveys of twins in China are used to contribute to an improved understanding of the role of economic development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many developing countries in recent decades. In...

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Inequality in the Distribution of Personal Income in the World: How It Is Changing and Why

Schultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998

The variance in the logarithms of per capita GDP in purchasing-power prices increased in the world from 1960 to 1968 and decreased since the mid 1970s. In the laterperiod the convergence in intercountry incomes more than offset any increase in within country inequality. Approximately two-thirds...

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Aging, Immigration and Women in the Labor Force: Japan Compared to Other OECD Countries.

Schultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1995

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Women's Role in the Agricultural Household: Bargaining and Human Capital.

Schultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999

This paper reviews the methods and empirical findings from economic analyses of women's contribution to social welfare and the determinants of their human capital. To understand better women's roles in agricultural households, three themes have gained prominence in the economics literature....

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Measurement of Child Health: Maternal Response Bias.

Sindelar, J.; Thomas, D. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1991

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