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We explore the effects of persistent income shocks on human capital using oil price fluctuations in a large sample of relevant African countries and employing micro data from multiple waves of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). Theoretically, such shocks enable human capital investment via...
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Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in most OECD countries. Despite its relevance, the effects of child care provided by grandparents on child and parental outcomes have received little attention in the literature....
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The study contributes in analytical description of spatial diffusion of fertility, in particular, influenced by labour … market due to commuting, which, in turn, affects fertility. The analytical model, decomposing spatial interaction of … fertility and commuting, is constructed on the base of a model of the demand for children, spatial stock-flow model, and a …
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higher-order fertility. I use a differences-in-differences design to investigate the introduction of a German law in 2001 …
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Child care and education are important inputs in the human capital production function. The research of Nobel prize winner James Heckman shows that skills are built from the early childhood on and increase the returns of later educational inputs, in short: skill begets skill. Therefore, it is...
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