The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of … associations. In addition, we account for educational disruptions related to household income shocks. Our findings show that … of the most vulnerable could be seriously affected. In particular, the likelihood of children from low educated families …

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger …

parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses’ siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children’s present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

and students’ cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children’s learning time …If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children’s skill development …, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic’s effects on school children, this paper …

average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12 percentage points overall and by 16 points for children with low …-educated parents. Interestingly, in most countries the gender gap diminishes because for men the projected decrease in secondary school …. disadvantaged children, earnings inequality could increase between one and four Gini points, depending on the assumptions. …