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Does grief transfer across generations? : in-utero deaths and child outcomes
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014
While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258168
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Childhood homelessness and adult employment : the role of education, incarceration, and welfare receipt
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Zhu, Anna - 2015
This paper analyzes the long-term consequences of children experiencing homelessness. Our primary goal is to assess the importance of the potential pathways linking childhood homelessness to adult employment. We use novel panel data that link survey and administrative data for a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308437
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Short Term Living Conditions and Long Term Prospects of Immigrant Children in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000
In Germany the foreign born population is made up of foreigners and so called ”ethnic Germans” who migrated from eastern European countries to Germany. While the first group is confronted with problems arising from the typical German concept of ethnicity and citizenship, the latter are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963620
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Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
In Germany the foreign born population is made up of foreigners and so called "ethnic Germans" who migrated from eastern European countries to Germany. While the first group is confronted with problems arising from the typical German concept of ethnicity and citizenship, the latter are entitled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260753
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Birth order and human capital development: evidence from Ecuador
Haan, Monique de; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rosero, José - 2012
In this paper we examine the effect of birth order on human capital development in Ecuador using a large national database together with self-collected survey data. Using family fixed effects models we find significant positive birth order effects; earlier born children stay behind in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009568726
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Mother's autonomy and child welfare : a new measure and some new evidence
Chakraborty, Tanika; De, Prabal K. - 2011
on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy and welfare outcomes. We argue that omitted variables that may drive education and autonomy are likely to be … Empowerment ; Principal Component ; Education ; Instrumental Variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308908
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Mother's autonomy and child welfare : a new measure and some new evidence
Chakraborty, Tanika; De, Prabal K. - 2011
on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy and welfare outcomes. We argue that omitted variables that may drive education and autonomy are likely to be … empowerment ; principal component ; education ; instrumental variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124587
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Reversal of gender gaps in child development: Evidence from young children in India
Lopez Boo, Florencia; Canon, Maria Eugenia - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 1, pp. 55-59
This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses its sign for the upper caste, with girls performing...
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Birth order, educational attainment and earnings : an investigation using the PSID
Kantarevic, Jasmin (contributor);  … - 2005
when considering earnings; being last-born confers none. -- birth order ; family size ; education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003260521
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Birth order matters : the effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment
Booth, Alison L. (contributor); Kee, Hiau Joo (contributor) - 2005
their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …. -- family size ; birth order ; education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003053137