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Migration Restrictions Can Create Gender Inequality : The Story of China's Left-Behind Children

Gao, Xuwen; Liang, Wenquan; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

than sons. Although China's hukou mobility restrictions are not gender-specific in intent, they have larger adverse effects …

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Child-Adoption Matching : Preferences for Gender and Race

Baccara, Mariagiovanna - 2010

This paper uses a new data set on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents over U.S.-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and unborn children close to birth, and against African-American...

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Racial Discrimination in Child Protection

Baron, E. Jason; Doyle, Joseph J.; Emanuel, Natalia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Ten percent of Black children in the U.S. spend time in foster care--twice the rate of white children. We estimate unwarranted disparities in foster care placement decisions, adjusting for differences in the potential for future maltreatment by leveraging the quasi-random assignment of cases to...

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Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This study investigates the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the living arrangements and housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study approach and difference-in-differences (DID) estimates, we compared immigrants above and below...

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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South...

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The "College Gap" in Marriage and Children's Family Structure

Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on US Census data, the Current Population Survey, the...

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The Child Penalty Atlas

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with … minuscule fraction of gender inequality. But as economies develop -- incomes rise and the labor market transitions from … subsistence agriculture towards salaried work in industry and services -- child penalties take over as the dominant driver of …

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The Consequences of Abuse, Neglect and Cyber-bullying on the Wellbeing of the Young

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using cross-sectional data files for the United States we show that difficulties experienced in childhood - so-called Adverse Child Experiences (ACE)s - are strongly and significantly associated with mental health in adulthood. Our evidence is taken from eight Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance...

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Violent Discipline and Parental Behavior : Short- and Medium-term Effects of Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers

Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ravindran, Saravana; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Approximately 75% of children aged 2 to 4 worldwide are regularly subjected to violent discipline across the globe. We study the impact of a virtually-delivered intervention on positive parenting practices in Jamaica. We find the intervention improves caregiver knowledge (0.52 SD) and attitudes...

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Intergenerational Spillover Effects of Language Training for Refugees

Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Peri, Giovanni; Nielson … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Children of refugees are among the most economically disadvantaged youth in several European countries. They are more likely to drop out of school and to commit crime. We show that a reform in Denmark in 1999, that expanded language training for adult refugees and improved their economic...

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