Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in … children thereby reducing their future earnings, and perpetuating poverty and inequality. The paper discusses important … of paternal and maternal shocks on different cohort groups, roles of cognitive abilities of children and quality of …

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 …

, 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 …

. Data from 135 couples and their children show that the father's risk aversion is negatively associated with school … evidence that points to a preference for current income generated by the employment of boys in high-value cash crop production …

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 …

countries depends more on the human capital levels of their parents’ ethnic group (ethnic capital) than on parental investment …

proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I … increased by 2 per cent. I further show that consolidation decreased the proportion of high scorers among grade 5 students by 0 ….08 and did not decrease the proportion of high scorers among grade 8 students by more than 0.02. School consolidation is a …