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In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental time restrictions. Building on a study by Koulovatianos et al. (2009) that introduces a novel way of using subjective income evaluation data for such estimations, we conduct a...
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This paper examines ethnic differences in childhood neighborhood disadvantage among children living in the Netherlands. In contrast to more conventional approaches for assessing children's exposure to neighborhood poverty and affluence (e.g., point-in-time and cumulative measures of exposure),...
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Previous research has reported evidence of intergenerational transmission of both neighbourhood status and social and economic outcomes later in life; parents influence where their children live as adults and how well they do later in life in terms of their income. However, interactions between...
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Longer term exposure to high poverty neighbourhoods can affect individual socio-economic outcomes later in life. Previous research has shown strong path dependence in individual neighbourhood histories. A growing literature shows that the neighbourhood histories of people is linked to the...
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It has been documented that the gender pay gap strongly increases after the birth of the first child. We focus on … evidence. First, the gender pay and commuting gaps come into existence at the same moment: when the first child is born. Second … who get a child are much more likely to leave their job when they have a long commute, which is not true for men. Using …
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We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps on census tract-level measures of socioeconomic status and economic opportunity from the Opportunity Atlas (Chetty et al. 2018). We use two identification strategies to identify the long-run effects...
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We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps on census tract-level measures of socioeconomic status and economic opportunity from the Opportunity Atlas (Chetty et al. 2018). We use two identification strategies to identify the long-run effects...
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relatively long-run measures of child health. Identifying this causal relationship is complicated due to endogenous selection and … ECLS-B. The analysis reveals a positive association between food insecurity and future child obesity in the absence of … indicate a negative causal effect of food insecurity on future child obesity. All results are extremely sensitive to …
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This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual framework, I apply the Alkire-Foster method using German panel data. I suggest new operationalizations for two dimensions: social participation and practical reason, the latter...
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vice products (alcohol, cigarettes and gambling). Having a working mother increases child expenditure on food products and … toys. A higher parental budget share, on any given commodity, is generally associated with an increased child budget share …
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