impact of the COVID pandemic on the mental health of school-age children in England. We focus on how the significant pandemic … induced disruptions to parental employment affected children and through what mechanisms, using unique nationally … significant and negative impact on children's mental health of around 9% of a standard deviation equivalent to around 30% of the …

inequality concerns over children's final outcomes. Because parents perceive investment to be 12 percent more productive for the … developing world. I study the role played by parents' educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … develop new theory-driven survey measures based on hypothetical scenarios that allow me to separately identify parents …

This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters …' schooling and marriage. We specify a dynamic discrete choice model in which parents face uncertainty about the quality of their … daughter's future marriage offers. Parents' choices are thus partially driven by their beliefs about the likelihood of …

We study the transmission of risk attititudes in a unique survey of mothers and children in which both participated in … children when the children are just 7 to 8 years old. This correlation is only present for daughters. We show that a measure of …

, it is crucial to announce them in advance to allow parents to adjust their investments when their children are young. …Parental investments significantly impact children's outcomes. Exploiting panel data covering individuals from birth to … mothers and fathers make investments in their children. We find that time investments, educational investments, and …

leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age … effects on sons than daughters. We find that the education effects remain significant even when household income is included …. Moreover, decomposing the income when the child is 16 between a permanent component and shocks to income at age 16 only the …

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …

, household income, and household wealth - and the health outcomes investigated span multiple dimensions as well. International …-country differences in levels of income equality and mortality as among the most compelling evidence that unequal societies have negative … top. This social health gradient exists whether education, income, or financial wealth is used as the marker of SES. While …

Papers in this volume and elsewhere consistently find a strong relationship between children's cognitive abilities and … their parents' socio-economic position (SEP). Most studies seeking to explain the paths through which SEP affects cognitive … determinant of children's cognitive abilities, namely parental cognitive ability. A range of econometric strategies have been …