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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"family economics"”.
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Three Essays on Family Economics
… dissertation investigates several key issues in family economics. The first chapter studies the role of family relocation on children's schooling and youth behavior problems. By exploiting the variation in sibling's age at the time of family relocation, we find no detectable negative effects of …
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Essays in labour and family economics
Are the less healthy relatively less employed because they are unable to work? Or vice versa? In the first part of the thesis, I evaluate the impact of health shocks on individual labour market transitions in 27 EU countries and I explain these results through the heterogeneity in social security …
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Essays in population and family economics
… groups of families, I estimate the effect of family allowances (also known as child benefits) on female labor force participation. The results show evidence of negative, yet insignificant and quantitatively negligible, effects of family allowances on female labor force participation.
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Essays on the Family Economics and Gender
This thesis contains three studies that focus on the accumulation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in childhood and financial behaviors of young adults. Chapter 1 analyzes the effect of off-school time use of children on achievement outcomes using unique data on children age 8-12. The data …
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Essays on early childhood development and family economics
… dissertation is to analyze the importance of family investment in explaining the evolution of children's development in disadvantaged households. I study how socioeconomic conditions, parenting, child care choices, and parent's innate ability determine cognitive and non-cognitive abilities of …
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Three Essays on Family Economics and Early Childhood Development
This dissertation consists of three essays studying the effects of collective household decisions on early childhood development from both empirical and theoretical perspectives. The first chapter outlines the dissertation, by presenting the motivations, methods, conclusions, and policy …
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Three Essays in Applied Economics
… with Emanuele Ciani, has a specific focus on family economics. We provide evidence that parents who helped their adult children in the past are rewarded by higher chances of receiving informal care later in life. To this purpose we use Italian data containing retrospective information about …
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The retirement planning process of African-American female, leading-edge baby boomers
… adult educators, financial planners, and other family economics and management specialists should develop information to help various groups understand the importance of preparing and planning at early ages for their eventual retirement.
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Three essays on the family gap and child education
… dissertation focuses on two important topics in family economics, the family gap and children’s education. The first two chapters discuss the difference in wages between mothers and non-mothers, known as the family gap or the motherhood wage gap, and the last chapter discusses child education and …
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Autoethnographic Exploration: A Native Non-Native in the World of Learners with Hidden Visual Impairments
… people with visual impairments including close family members. As an insider, I have the privilege of observing and experiencing first-hand the challenges and triumphs of individuals with visual impairments. I wrestle with how my observations and interactions with family members’ real-life …
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Three Essays in Population Economics
<p>The family is an important source of caregiving and support for its members. Its importance has been reinforced by recent demographic trends in the United States and around the world. Due to improvements in health and life expectancy, today most individuals spend the majority of their adult life …
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Social Policy and Family Well-Being: Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… in maternal and child well-being, as well as family structure and behavior, and draw implications for addressing the needs of disadvantaged populations in the United States. I use quasi-experimental empirical strategies with large and varied data sets to provide credible causal estimates. I …