, children's peers are complementary to financial investment by parents, while the adult role models are substitutes. In contrast … of a convex relation in rural and urban Indonesia. The rural-urban relative mobility curves cross, with the children of … children when the father has more than nine years of schooling. However, the rural children face lower absolute mobility across …

The proportions of girls marrying or having children before the age of 18 have been declining in Uganda according to … than one third of girls still marry as children, and close to three in ten girls have their first child before turning 18 …

workforce in the current world of work, little is known about the contribution they make to students' outcomes, above and beyond …

the socioeconomic status of survey respondents at age 15, the educational attainment of their parents, their households …

now gone through a demographic transition, with declining birth rates and an increase in the aging population, low-income …

Many low- and middle-income countries lag far behind high-income countries in educational access and student learning …

-farmer parents (with higher income) do not enjoy any advantages over the children of more educated farmer parents. Estimates of cross … across farm-nonfarm occupations. Having nonfarm parents, in general, has positive effects, but children of low educated non … of family background on children's education in villages, with a focus on the role of nonfarm occupations. The analysis …

-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the … children ages 6 to 8 in 2013. The paper finds that increased maternal access to schooling has positive and multidimensional … effects on children. The effects are particularly salient at the bottom of the distributions of outcomes. Drawing on insights …

on students' learning outcomes. Receiving the grant alone had no impact on either test scores or student participation …