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Elder Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children : Evidence from Rural China

Giles, John - 2006

families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are …

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Does Being "Left Behind" in Childhood Lead to Criminality in Adulthood? Evidence from Data on Rural-Urban Migrants and Prison Inmates in China

Cameron, Lisa A.; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2022

Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million …

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Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age : Comparative Evidence from China and the United States

Chen, Xi - 2020

evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two … waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with the newly released 2014 Life …-16 percent and 14-30 percent of health inequality in old age in China and the USA, respectively. Specifically, the contribution …

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Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-Off a Trade-Off for All, None, or Some?

Millimet, Daniel L. - 2009

Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship - particularly on child health - is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses the quantity-quality trade-off across the entire...

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Impact of Pollution from Coal on the Anemic Status of Children and Women : Evidence from India

Datt, Gaurav - 2020

Economic growth in emerging market economies has come hand-in-hand with growing demand for energy, with many of them meeting this higher demand by increased use of coal to fuel electricity generation. This paper examines the impact of pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic...

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Fostering, Child Welfare, and Ethnic Cultural Values

Badaoui, Eliane - 2018

This article examines the effects of fostering on children's labour supply and schooling in host families in Niger. The focus is on the causal role of ethnic inherited cultural values and behaviours in perpetuating fostering. In particular, at the ethnic group level, we rely on the inherited...

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Early Life Determinants of Cognitive Ability : A Comparative Study on Madagascar and Senegal

Sahn, David E. - 2018

We study the determinants of educational and cognitive outcomes of young adults in Madagascar and Senegal employing a production function approach. Using unique and comparable long-term panel data sets from both countries, we find that cognitive skills measured using test scores in second grade...

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Cohort at Risk : Long-Term Consequences of Conflict for Child School Achievement

Jürges, Hendrik - 2017

We investigate the long-term effects of households' exposure to violent conflict on children's educational attainment in primary school, studying cognitive and non-cognitive skills as possible causal channels. Our identification strategy exploits the locality-level variation in the intensity of...

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First and Second Generation Impacts of the Biafran War

Akresh, Richard - 2017

We analyze long-term impacts of the 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War, providing the first evidence of intergenerational impacts. Women exposed to the war in their growing years exhibit reduced adult stature, increased likelihood of being overweight, earlier age at first birth, and lower educational...

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Girls for Sale? Child Sex Ratio and Girls Trafficking in India

Prakash, Nishith - 2014

Illegal trafficking of women is a result of their disadvantageous position in the society that is often reflected in increasing preference for son and neglect for daughters. Multiple reports point to India as country confronted with both higher levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal...

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