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show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for …
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show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for …
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show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for …
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About 11% of the Chinese population are rural-urban migrants, and the vast majority of them (124 million people) possess a rural hukou which severely restrict their children's access to urban public schools. As a result, 61 million children are left behind in rural areas. We use a...
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show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for …
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About 11% of the Chinese population are rural-urban migrants with a rural hukou that severely restricts their children's access to urban schools. As a result, 69 million children are left behind in rural areas. We use two regression-discontinuity designs - based on school enrollment age cutoffs...
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-household resource sharing, we construct globally comparable measures of gender inequality and child poverty in consumption. Our findings … nutritional proxies tend to validate our results, linking household poverty and intra-household disparities to child …
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We examine the effects of local labor market conditions during early pregnancy on birth and later outcomes. Using a longitudinal survey of newborns in Japan, we find that improvements in employment opportunities increase the probability of low birth weight, attributable to shortened gestation....
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levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal child sex ratios in favor of boys. In this paper we examine if a skewed … states from 1980-2011, we find that 100 unit increase in child sex ratio is associated with 0.635% increase in illegal … state. We find that association between child sex ratio and illegal trafficking of girls is stronger and larger in magnitude …
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levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal child sex ratios in favor of boys. In this paper we examine if a skewed … states from 1980-2011, we find that 100 unit increase in child sex ratio is associated with 0.635% increase in illegal … state. We find that association between child sex ratio and illegal trafficking of girls is stronger and larger in magnitude …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379211