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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337731
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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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Heterogeneous effects of women's schooling on fertility, literacy and work : evidence from Burundi's free primary education policy
Wild, Frederik; Stadelmann, David - 2020
situated at all wealth levels, the relevant downstream effects of schooling - measured by fertility, literacy and employment … reduced fertility through policy induced education, while there are almost no effects of additional education for non …-poor women. Our findings help in evaluating the generalisability of the nexus between women's education and fertility as well as …
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Intergenerational effects of grandparental care on children and parents
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021 - First draft
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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