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 …

impact of the COVID pandemic on the mental health of school-age children in England. We focus on how the significant pandemic … induced disruptions to parental employment affected children and through what mechanisms, using unique nationally … significant and negative impact on children’s mental health of around 9% of a standard deviation equivalent to around 30% of the …

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 …