Background: Given that many social workers in fact work with the economically disadvantaged, it may be assumed that their attitudes stem from their academic studies combined with attitudes acquired through intergenerational transmission. The study poses two main questions: 1) what are the attitudes of Israeli social work students, as well as those of their parents and their grandparents towards...

This paper estimates the causal impact of China’s targeted poverty alleviation program on academic achievement students from poor households. We use longitudinal records a cohort all middle schools in nationally designated county China. Using difference-in-differences approach, we show that improves scholastic performance girls and their rank among peer students. However, find no such empirical...

Despite substantial evidence that resources and outcomes are transmitted across generations, there has been limited inquiry into the extent to which anti-poverty programs actually disrupt the cycle of bad outcomes. We explore how the effects of the United States’ largest early childhood program transfer across generations. We leverage the geographic rollout of this federally funded, means-teste...

China’s One Child Policy (OCP), introduced in 1979, changed fundamentally the nature of both existing and anticipated marriage arrangements and influenced family formation decisions in many dimensions, especially with respect to the number of and investment in children. The policy coincided with the Economic Reforms of 1979 and the trend toward greater urbanization, all of which may have influe...

This article examines the link between restrictions on the number of physicians and general practitioners' (GPs) earnings. Using a representative panel of 6016 French self-employed GPs over the years 1983-2004, we estimate an earnings function to identify experience, time and cohort effects. The estimated gap in earnings between 'good' and 'bad' cohorts can be as large as 25%. GPs who began the...

In the context of implementation rural revitalization strategy, development digital economy closely connects with it. The realization needs to make full use advantages promote process revitalization. wave is a huge opportunity for poor bridge gap between rich and poor, seize opportunities, share dividends, achieve sustainable poverty alleviation, prevent intergenerational transmission poverty. ...

For different motives, couples in need of third party assisted reproduction sometimes prefer the help of a family member over an unrelated collaborator. Quantitative (frequency) and qualitative (experience) data about this practice are lacking or scarce. Forms of intrafamilial medically assisted reproduction (IMAR) are different with respect to (i) familial closeness between the collaborator an...

After 2020, poverty alleviation in China will shift from eliminating absolute to alleviating unbalanced and insufficient relative poverty. Based on Amartya Sen’s capability approach, this article aimed realize the freedom of “capability” children ensure well-being development Chinese adolescents, who are often ignored child research. The study sought estimate 10–15-year-olds a multidimensional ...