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

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

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 aged below five years. Using detailed dataset from the current and fourth round of the National Family Health Survey … likelihood of her children being malnourished. When we focus on identifying the pathways through which domestic violence affect … health, neglect of children in terms of inadequate provision of essential child care also seem to matter. The results from …

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 …

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 …