not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that it cannot be due solely to …

granddaughters? I study this question by comparing outcomes for former slaves and their children and grandchildren to outcomes for … free blacks (pre-1865), and their children and grandchildren. The outcome measures include literacy, whether a child … interpretations of father-son correlations in income and socioeconomic status. The data used are from the 1880 and 1920 1 percent …

Research documents that parental beliefs influence early investments in children, which, in turn, determine early human … capital and, eventually, other skills children acquire in later stages of the lifecycle, such as literacy. Our paper reports … teaches the science of early language development, models verbal interaction behaviors with children, and provides objective …

limited effectiveness, the introduction of a new modality with enhanced mentor training significantly improves children …

surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million … children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background …, prior child cognition and health, and child investments. We use income and local prices to control for the endogeneity of …