This paper investigates the relationship between parental health shocks and children's engagement in education and … health on children's educational and labour market outcomes is limited, especially in developing countries. We use child … maternal illness substantially decreases chances of being enrolled in school for children between 10 and 23 years old and, at …

from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) to measure birth order effects on children's educational outcomes in 35 … dimensions of heterogeneity, the negative birth order effects are stronger for children from poorer households, and households in …

mental wellbeing. These gender differences are more pronounced in lower-income families. Our results are consistent with …

level learning assessment, involving children in selected grades from second to tenth. We first analyse the magnitude of the … the average gap increases with children's age. We then study the gender gap throughout the test scores distribution, using … distribution, but large among top performing children. Finally, we estimate dynamic models relating math performance at two …

utilised as a measure of mathematical skills. In this paper, we argue that in order to measure children's capability in … mathematics we need to include some indicators of the attitudes of children towards the subject. This is particularly important …