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and children, child human capital, and savings. Estimating how exogenous changes in fertility that are uncorrelated with …
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the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows …-headship on children's outcomes, I use a two-stage least squares strategy that controls for the possible endogeneity of both types … of female-headship. Results indicate that children residing in households headed by married women have stronger schooling …
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the inter-generational effects on the health and schooling of the woman’s children. Within two decades many of these … indicators of the welfare of women and their children improve significantly in conjunction with the program-induced decline in …
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This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to … determine marital status of women and number of children ever born are estimated considering factors that affect women …'s bargaining powers inside the marriage. Tentative estimates of structural interdependence between these variables and children …
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Recent research reveals a negative impact of divorce on children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in …
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Württemberg (southern Germany) from the mid-sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Using high-quality registers of births …
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This paper uses data from two waves of the Indonesia Family life Survey (IFLS2-1997 and IFLS3-2000) to investigate whether households that belong to the same extended families pool their income to smooth their consumption. We exploit the fact that the survey also tracks and interviews split-off...
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Market-based development efforts frequently create opportunities to generate income from goods previously produced and consumed within the household. Production within the household is often characterized by a gender and age division of labor. Market development efforts to improve well being may...
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