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IZA Discussion Paper No. 2841
Early Childbirth, Health Inputs and Child Mortality: Recent Evidence from Bangladesh
Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2841
Early Childbirth, Health Inputs and Child Mortality: Recent Evidence from Bangladesh
Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2815
Population Policies, Fertility, Women’s Human Capital, and Child Quality
T. Paul Schultz
published in: T. Paul Schultz and John Strauss (eds.), Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 4, Amsterdam: North-Holland, Elsevier, 2008
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2776
Household Choices of Child Labor and Schooling: A Simple Model with Application to Brazil
Diana Kruger, Rodrigo R. Soares, Matias Berthelon
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (1), 1-31
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2752
Handedness, Time Use and Early Childhood Development
David W. Johnston, Manisha Shah, Michael A. Shields
revised version published (with Michael E.R. Nicholls) as 'Nature's Experiment? Handedness and Early Childhood Development' in: Demography, 2009, 46 (2), 281 - 301
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2752
Handedness, Time Use and Early Childhood Development
David W. Johnston, Manisha Shah, Michael A. Shields
revised version published (with Michael E.R. Nicholls) as 'Nature's Experiment? Handedness and Early Childhood Development' in: Demography, 2009, 46 (2), 281 - 301
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2748
Maximum Fee vs. Child Benefit: A Welfare Analysis of Swedish Child-Care Fee Reform
Anne Brink, Katarina Nordblom, Roger Wahlberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2748
Maximum Fee vs. Child Benefit: A Welfare Analysis of Swedish Child-Care Fee Reform
Anne Brink, Katarina Nordblom, Roger Wahlberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2736
Child Labor and Household Wealth: Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted-U
Kaushik Basu, Sanghamitra Das, Bhaskar Dutta
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91 (1), 8 - 14
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2734
Mums and Their Sons, Dads and Their Daughters: Panel Data Evidence of Interdependent Marginal Utilities across 14 EU Countries
José Alberto Molina, Maria Navarro Paniagua, Ian Walker
published as 'Intergenerational Well-Being Mobility in Europe' in: Kyklos, 2011, 64 (2), 253-270
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2726
How Does the Presence of Children Affect Dependent Care? A Psycho-Economic Approach
J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Miriam Marcén, José Alberto Molina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2725
The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children
James J. Heckman, Dimitriy V. Masterov
published in: Review of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 29 (3), 446-493
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2693
Short-Run and Long-Term Effects of Childbirth on Mothers’ Employment and Working Hours Across Institutional Regimes: An Empirical Analysis Based on the European Community Household Panel
Johannes Geyer, Viktor Steiner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2669
A Theory of Child Targeting
Olivier Bargain, Olivier Donni
published as 'Targeting and Child Poverty' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2012, 39(4), 783-808
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2645
Always Poor or Never Poor and Nothing in Between? Duration of Child Poverty in Germany
Michael Fertig, Marcus Tamm
published in: German Economic Review, 2010, 11 (2), 150-168
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2629
Golden Years? The Labor Market Effects of Caring for Grandchildren
Ying Wang, Dave E. Marcotte
published in: Journal of Marriage and Family, 2007, 69 (5), 1283-1297
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2611
Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Eric V. Edmonds, Nina Pavcnik, Petia Topalova
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (4), 42-75
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2606
Child Labor
Eric V. Edmonds
published in: Handbook of Development Economics Volume 4: T.P. Shultz and J. Strauss, eds., 2008
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2554
Accounting for Intergenerational Income Persistence: Noncognitive Skills, Ability and Education
Jo Blanden, Paul Gregg, Lindsey Macmillan
published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (519), C43-C60
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2509
Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy
Stephan Klasen
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2008, 6(1), 89-115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2498
Intra-Household Allocation of Resources: Inferences from Non-Resident Fathers’ Child Support Payments
John Ermisch, Chiara D. Pronzato
published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (527), 347-362
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2469
Do Downward Private Transfers Enhance Maternal Labor Supply? Evidence from around Europe
Ralitza Dimova, François-Charles Wolff
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (3), 911-933
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2441
The Effect of Family Structure on Parents' Child Care Time in the United States and the United Kingdom
Charlene M. Kalenkoski, David C. Ribar, Leslie S. Stratton
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (4), 353-384
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2436
The Influence of Wages on Parents’ Allocations of Time to Child Care and Market Work in the United Kingdom
Charlene M. Kalenkoski, David C. Ribar, Leslie S. Stratton
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (2), 399-419
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2434
Expanding Schooling Opportunities for 4-Year-Olds
Edwin Leuven, Mikael Lindahl, Hessel Oosterbeek, Dinand Webbink
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (3), 319-328, revised version available here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2414
The Determinants of Motherhood and Work Status: A Survey
Daniela Del Boca, Marilena Locatelli
published as 'Motherhood and participation' in: D. Del Boca and C. Wetzels (eds.), Social Policies, Labor Markets and Motherhood, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 155-180
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2359
Civil War, Crop Failure, and the Health Status of Young Children
Richard Akresh, Philip Verwimp
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 59(4), 777-810
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2295
Assessing the Effect of Mother’s Migration on Childhood Mortality in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi
Adama Konseiga, Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu, Yazoumé Yé
published in: M. Collinson, K. Adazu, M. White, S. Findley, (eds.), The Dynamics of Migration, Health and Livelihoods: INDEPTH Network Perspectives, Ashgate, 2009, 128 - 138
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2285
Life Cycle Employment and Fertility Across Institutional Environments
Daniela Del Boca, Robert M. Sauer
published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53(3), 274-292
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2219
Quantifying the Cost of Passive Smoking on Child Health: Evidence from Children’s Cotinine Samples
Paul Frijters, Michael A. Shields, Stephen Wheatley Price, Jenny Williams
revised version published in: Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series A-Statistics In Society, 174 (1) 2011, 195-212
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2192
Is Fertility Related to Religiosity? Evidence from Spain
Pablo Brañas-Garza, Shoshana Neuman
revised version published as 'Is Fertility Indeed Related to Religiosity? A Note on: 'Marital Fertility and Religion in Spain, 1985 and 1999' ' in: Population Studies, 2007, 60 (2), 219-224
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2190
Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce
Eric I. Knudsen, James J. Heckman, Judy L. Cameron, Jack P. Shonkoff
published in: World Economics, 2006, 7 (3), 17 - 41
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2136
Child Work and Schooling Costs in Rural Northern India
Gautam Hazarika, Arjun S. Bedi
published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.), Labor Markets and Economic Development, Routledge, 2009
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2111
Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Jens Ludwig, Douglas L. Miller
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (1), 159-208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2096
Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
Maarten Lindeboom, Ana Llena-Nozal, Bas van der Klaauw
revised version published as 'Health Shocks, Disability and Work' in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 186-200
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2085
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants
Abdurrahman Aydemir, Wen-Hao Chen, Miles Corak
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (2), 377 - 397
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2063
Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?
Janet Currie, Erdal Tekin
revised version published as 'Understanding the Cycle: Childhood Maltreatment and Future Crime?' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (2), 509-549
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2058
Is Mothers' Time With Their Children Home Production or Leisure?
Jean Kimmel, Rachel Connelly
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2007, 42(3), 643-81
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2053
Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market
Katharina Wrohlich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1966
Child Labor, Urban Proximity and Household Composition
Marcel Fafchamps, Jackline Wahba
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2006, 79 (2), 374-397
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1966
Child Labor, Urban Proximity and Household Composition
Marcel Fafchamps, Jackline Wahba
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2006, 79 (2), 374-397
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1932
Can Parents Afford to Work? Childcare Costs, Tax-Benefit Policies and Work Incentives
Herwig Immervoll, David Barber
updated and extended version published in: OECD (2007), Benefits and Wages: OECD Indicators
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1908
Labour Supply and Childcare for British Mothers in Two-Parent Families: A Structural Approach
Antonia Parera-Nicolau, Karen A. Mumford
formative work for "Labour Supply and Childcare", IZA DP No. 12500.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1860
The Cost of Caring for Young Children
Dan T. Rosenbaum, Christopher J. Ruhm
published as 'Family Expenditures on Child Care' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7(1), Article 34
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1837
Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany
Marco Francesconi, Stephen P. Jenkins, Thomas Siedler
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 1073-1103
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1832
The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Health of their Children
Orla Doyle, Colm P. Harmon, Ian Walker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1787
The Division of Labor by New Parents: Does Child Gender Matter?
Shelly Lundberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1779
Labor Supply and Child Care Costs: The Effect of Rationing
Daniela Del Boca, Daniela Vuri
published as 'The mismatch between employment and child care in Italy: the impact of rationing' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20(4), 805-832
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1771
The Influence of Market Wages and Parental History on Child Labour and Schooling in Egypt
Jackline Wahba
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (4), 823-852
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1771
The Influence of Market Wages and Parental History on Child Labour and Schooling in Egypt
Jackline Wahba
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (4), 823-852
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