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 …

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 …

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 …

, affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. In our empirical specification we use household … income reduction associated with it, whereas for girls, changes in the household decision-maker appear to play an important …

In this paper we reassess the evidence on labor income risk. There are two leading views on the nature of the income … process in the current literature. The .first view, which we call the .Restricted Income Profiles.(RIP) process, holds that … individuals are subject to large and very persistent shocks, while facing similar life-cycle income profiles. The alternative view …

themselves. Our data consists of administrative educational records for grade 12 students in a Canadian province linked with … their own and their parents' welfare records. We address potential endogeneity problems by: 1) controlling for ability using … larger for individuals from troubled family backgrounds and low income neighbourhoods. …