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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2020
The consequences of early motherhood for the offspring are severely understudied, especially in low- and middle-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital in terms of...
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Child education and work : evidence from Mexico's full-time school program
Kozhaya, Mireille; Martinez Flores, Fernanda - 2020 - This version: June 2020
This paper examines the effect of a program that extended the length of a school day to improve schooling quality in Mexico, on school enrollment, time spent on schooling activities, and child labor of children aged 7 to 14. We take advantage of the staggered implementation of the FTS program...
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Investing in our young people
Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J. - 2010
This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. Noncognitive skills play a fundamental role in successful lives. The dynamics of skill formation reveal...
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Anticipated children and educational investment : evidence from the one-child policy in China
Raiber, Eva - 2021
Does the number of future anticipated children affect educational investment in parents-to-be? In theory, anticipated children can affect the returns to education, the resources available for family consumption, and the incentives for pre-marital investment. Changes in the eligibility criteria...
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An urban accounting for geographic concentration of skill and welfare inequality
Fu, Yuming; Hao, Yang - 2015 - (Preliminary version)
Using Jones (2014) generalized human capital accounting, we extend the urban accounting model of Desmet and Rossi-Hansberg (2013) to account for the geographic distribution of skills across US metropolitan areas. The methodology allows the productivity of high-skill workers to depend on location...
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Testing unified growth theory : technological progress and the child quantity-quality trade-of
Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Strulik, Holger - 2021
interaction with child quantity-quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD countries over the … technological progress on investments in education and a strongly negative one on fertility. Using two-stage regressions, we assess … increase of enrollment in primary and secondary school is associated with a decline of the general fertility rate by 3 to 4 …
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Divorce and the birth control pill
Marcén, Miriam - 2013
This paper explores the role of the birth control pill on divorce. To identify its effect, we use a quasi experiment exploiting the differences in the language of the Comstock anti-obscenity statutes approved in the 1800s and early 1900s in the US. Results suggest that banning the sales of oral...
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Do children prevent their poor old parents from working?
Rao, Ziwei - 2021
This study provides the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of fertility outcomes on old-age labor supply, by … exogenous instruments of fertility. The results show strong impact of children on preventing old parents from strenuous works at …
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We don't need no education : the effect of persistent income shocks on human capital
Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2021
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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The economics of human development and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
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