Under China's household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou lack equal access to education in urban … areas. This paper investigates the causal effect of hukou status on children's education by exploiting an exogenous change … in hukou status induced by the hukou reform in 1998. Before the reform, children could only inherit their mother's hukou …

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational …

Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it … behavioral biases among lower educated and younger students could explain these contrasting findings. …

child or more children by 0.18 among those mothers whose first child was a girl. In addition to the income effect, these …-in-differences methods. The results show that an additional year of schooling lowered the number of children a woman would have by … approximately 0.09 children, postponed the age of first childbirth by 0.7 years, and reduced the probability of having a second …

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … pronounced for higher performing students. By contrast, gender differences in media time are the main factor explaining gender … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …