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 …

When deciding how to allocate their time among different types of investment in their children, parents weigh up the … perceived benefits and costs of different activities. During the COVID-19 outbreak parents had to consider a new cost dimension … about risks and returns play for the allocation of time with children during the pandemic? We answer this question by …

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 …