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 …

Recent research reveals a negative impact of divorce on children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in … proportion of time spent with the noncustodial parent and the ex-post parental income distribution. Our results show that a more … equal allocation of time with the child, though beneficial to the children, may have a negative effect for the mother …

labor hours unchanged. Among sick children, school attendance significantly increases as a result of receiving higher …

and child mortality, life expectation, and school enrollment rates, controlling for national income, women's and men … local quality of schooling, which appear to benefit disproportionately the above-average income households in Africa, as in … most other low-income settings. …

if the children of well-educated parents paid the public costs of their schooling, and these tuition revenues facilitated … the expansion of higher education and financed fellowships for children of the poor and less educated parents. …, are not needed to motivate students to enroll, and those who have in the past enrolled in these levels of education are …