-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …

persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's educationbecause of credit market imperfections. Parents may … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. Inurban China, and urban and … evidence of pure son preference in rural India.The girls in rural China do not face bias in financial investment by parents …

children of urban college educated fathers, but not in rural areas. Theoretical insights help understand the mechanisms …

Bengal in 2013 on children’s early enrollment in schools and subsequent test scores. Using double difference, triple …-primary sections of the government schools. However, the rise in enrollment did not translate into improved performance of the students …. Analyzing the test scores, we find that after the program's introduction, both math and reading scores of treated children did …

childhood are more likely to send their children to work. We also look at the effect of social norms on the parents' child labor … poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor, we choose to focus on the phenomenon that parents who worked during own … explanation for the phenomenon of poor societies with similar income levels that differ significantly in literacy rates and …

A large literature on intergenerational mobility focuses on the conditional mean of children's economic outcomes to … suggests a strong influence of father's education on conditional variance of children's schooling. We find substantial … measures substantially underestimate the effects of family background on children's educational opportunities, and may give a …

students in India. We measure teacher's bias through an index capturing teacher's subjective beliefs about the role of gender … controlling for teacher fixed effects in a value-added model that includes lagged test score of students. We find that a standard … especially strong among the medium-performing students and in classes where the majority of students are boys. Moreover, among …

order to increase their chances of obtaining a job in the host country after migration. Thus, all home country students may …