This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters …’ schooling and marriage. We specify a dynamic discrete choice model in which parents face uncertainty about the quality of their … daughter’s future marriage offers. Parents’ choices are thus partially driven by their beliefs about the likelihood of …

parents of school-aged children in two-parent opposite-gender families. In line with existing evidence, we find that mothers … industries and occupations in which parents worked prior to the lockdown. Nor can they be explained by gender differences in …

Higher education policy potentially has an important role in improving intergenerational income mobility. We use rich … outcomes between richer and poorer students who leave school with good attainment levels. From a set of policies aimed at … targets the supply side by enforcing universities to give preferential admission to poorer students who graduate near the top …