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(IU) on fertility among reproductive-age women. We find that IU reduces the number of children born, with more pronounced … participation affects the number of children born through decreased marital satisfaction, changed attitudes toward traditional …
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The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling investment than his brother, he will obtain 0.7 yuan more...
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found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The …
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administrative data on schooling and birth records from Chile and Norway, we establish that children who receive extra medical care …
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is absent for children of preschool age. We also find that (1) boys are more likely to migrate following the reduction in … the number of rural primary schools, (2) migrant households with multiple children tend to take their sons to migrate more … than they take their daughters, and (3) the fact that parents of boy students spend more on their children's education can …
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children, which can be seen as evidence of sexual bias related to a commonly believed existing preference for boys. …
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-à-vis native urbanites. We also find that children of families experiencing a hukou change due to expropriation have similar … investment in human capital as the children of native urban hukou holders. The results confirm the hukou status as a strong … of the differences in parental background, appear however to disappear for the children of families experiencing …
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children, which can be seen as evidence of sexual bias related to a commonly believed existing preference for boys. …
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The literature on subjective well-being has highlighted the negative effects associated with the restrictions and inequality imposed by the hukou system on China's rural population. However, quantifying the cost of holding a rural hukou has generally been problematic, principally for lack of...
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the cognitive development of children. Our study, based on longitudinal data from the 2010-2018 China Family Panel Studies …, and education, further exacerbating the challenges faced by their adolescent children in the academic arena. …
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