The emergence of child-headed households (CHH) is considered an indicator of the erosion of the traditional safety nets in sub-Saharan African countries and a direct consequence of the increasing number of orphans in the region. Using four available waves of the Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Surveys (1988, 1994, 1999, 2005/2006), we find that the proportion of households with no adults remain...

IZA DP No. 11178 NOVEMBER 2017 Sorting out Neighbourhood Effects Using Sibling Data Previous research has reported evidence of intergenerational transmission of both neighbourhood status and social and economic outcomes later in life; parents influence where their children live as adults and how well they do later in life in terms of their income. However, interactions between the individual, t...

C a population that is maintained at 2N genes for a large number of generations. Assume that each gene in each generation has a unique parental gene, the parental gene is equally likely to be any of the genes in the preceding generation, and the choices of parents for different genes are independent. Then two genes in the same generation will have the same parent with probability 1/2N and will ...

Résumé. Cet article propose une méthodologie pour la visualisation et la classification des parcours de vie. Plus spécifiquement, nous considérons les parcours de vie d’individus suisses nés durant la première moitié du XXème siècle en utilisant les données provenant de l’enquête biographique rétrospective menée en 2002 par le Panel suisse de ménages. Nous nous sommes concentrés sur ces événeme...

Sweden represents an interesting paradox in regards to egalitarian matters. It is considered one of the most egalitarian countries in the world, with strong norms about gender equality, and repeatedly ranks favourably and near the top of various measures of gender equality (e.g., Hausmann, Tyson, & Zahidi, 2012). There is a higher educational attainment for women than men, extensive legal and f...

Early experiences exert their effects on adult parental behavior in part by altering the development of neurobiological mechanisms that initiate or support the initiation and sustenance of adult parental behavior. The effects of parental behavior on sensory, perceptual and emotional mechanisms in offspring constitute an experientially based mechanism by which neurobiological factors regulating ...

its intermediary causes, but rather the existence of hostile and aggressive parental behavior during childhood (Keister, 2005; Amato, 2005). Accordingly, divorce may just be another measure of a more significant cause of diminished income attainment among children of divorce: poorly managed anger by parents. The present study seeks to explore these complex relationships and establish that the p...

Children’s Schooling and Parental Migration: Empirical Evidence on the “Left Behind” Generation in Albania This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause relational and psychological problems that may affect ch...