This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …

explain the underinvestment of parents in their children's human capital. We first incorporate these two potential mechanisms …

Adult Arrival parents and their Child Arrival children. We find, relative to the Family Class, the Adult Arrivals in the … administrative data on landing records matched with subsequent income tax records that also allows for the linking of the records of … parent's subsequent income in Canada. …

that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …

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 …

parental unemployment on children's human capital should be considered by policymakers, as should educational interventions to …

, or divorce on children's school enrollment, for children aged from 7 to 22. We find children from two-parent families …-family types, the negative effect on children of parental divorce is higher than that of parental death, while the effect of … parental migration is the lowest. Comparing the effect of single-father and single-mother households, we find that children …

This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on fragile families’ time use with their children. Courses …, we find attending the course increased families’ awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, the …

Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … children’s skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills … rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children’s skills …