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The Effects of In Utero Programs on Birth Outcomes: The Case of Buen Comienzo

Economía, 2017
This paper studies the effects of an in utero program on birth outcomes for vulnerable pregnant women. We use information from the Buen Comienzo program, an initiative run by the local government of Medellín, the second-largest city of Colombia.
Lina Cardona-Sosa, Carlos Medina
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Three-point functions and operator product expansion in the SL(2) conformal field theory

, 2002
In the SL(2) conformal field theory, we write down and analyze the analytic expression of the three-point functions of generic primary fields with definite SL(2) weights.
Balog, Bars, Becker, de Boer, Dotsenko, Evans, Fukuda, Gawȩdzki, Gawȩdzki, Gepner, Giribet, Giribet, Giveon, Giveon, Giveon, Henningson, Hikida, Holman, Holman, Hosomichi, Hosomichi, Hwang, Ishibashi, Kato, Kutasov, Larsen, Maldacena, Maldacena, Maldacena, Mohammedi, Pesando, Petropoulos, Petropoulos, Satoh, Slater, Teschner, Teschner, Teschner, Teschner, Vilenkin, Wang, Yuji Satoh, Zamolodchikov   +42 more
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The Nurture of Nature and the Nature of Nurture: How Genes and Investments Interact in the Formation of Skills

Social Science Research Network
This paper studies the interplay between genetics and family investments in the process of skill formation. We model and estimate the joint evolution of skills and parental investments throughout early childhood. We document three genetic mechanisms: the
M. Houmark, Victor Ronda, M. Rosholm
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Numerical renormalization group study of two-channel three-impurity triangular clusters

, 2009
We study triangular clusters of three spin-1/2 Kondo or Anderson impurities that are coupled to two conduction leads. In the case of Kondo impurities, the model takes the form of an antiferromagnetic Heisenberg ring with Kondo-like exchange coupling to ...
A. C. Hewson, Janez Bonča, L. I. Glazman, L. Kouwenhoven, P. Nozières, Rok Žitko   +5 more
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Intervenciones de estimulación infantil temprana en los países en vías de desarrollo: lo que funciona, por qué y para quién

Económica, 2014
Este artículo revisa la efectividad de 33 intervenciones de estimulación infantil temprana en niños de 0 a 3 años en los países en vías de desarrollo.
Helen Baker-Henningham, Florencia López Boo   +1 more
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IMPACT OF FAMILY SIZE ON EDUCATION, CHILD LABOR AND FEMALE LABOR SUPPLY: THE CASE OF ECUADOR

Revista de Economía Política de Buenos Aires, 2018
Este documento estudia el impacto del tamaño del hogar en la educación, el trabajo infantil y la participación laboral de las madres en Ecuador, utilizando las preferencias de los padres y el sexo de sus dos primeros hijos para sortear los problemas de ...
Aquiles Villamil Argote
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Explaining Fertility Variation in Rural Communities: The Role of Electricity in Ghana

Economies, 2018
We believe the massive rural electrification, which began in 1992, played a significant role in the varying fertility rates across rural Ghana. Rural households with electricity, tend to have fewer children ever born to a woman than households without ...
George Akpandjar, Conrad Puozaa, Peter Quartey   +2 more
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Use of ICT: What effect on youth access to employment in Cameroon?

Heliyon
This study aims to explore the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on job acquisition for young people aged 15 to 35 in Cameroon.
Astride Claudel Njiepue Nouffeussie, Cosmas Bernard Meka'A, Romus Noufelie, Bruno Ndouyang Balguessam   +3 more
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The Long-Run Effects of California’s Paid Family Leave Act on Women’s Careers and Childbearing: New Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design and US Tax Data

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
We use administrative tax data to analyze the cumulative, long-run effects of California’s 2004 Paid Family Leave Act (CPFL) on women’s employment, earnings, and childbearing.
Martha J. Bailey, Tanya S. Byker, Elena Patel, Shanthi P. Ramnath   +3 more
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Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Labor Market Outcomes of Women with Children in Mexico

Economía
This paper estimates the effects of having children at home on the labor market outcomes of women in Mexico during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings suggest that women with children at home experienced some additional negative impacts
Laura Juarez, Paula Villaseñor
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