, children's peers are complementary to financial investment by parents, while the adult role models are substitutes. In contrast … of a convex relation in rural and urban Indonesia. The rural-urban relative mobility curves cross, with the children of … children when the father has more than nine years of schooling. However, the rural children face lower absolute mobility across …

creation of a preprimary parenting program for the South Sudanese context, to enhance school readiness of children between the … be useful to increase the engagement of parents in preprimary skill development in South Sudan. Bearing in mind the …) use of local resources, (iii) creation of contextually relevant curriculum, (iv) supporting parents who do not know how to …

The proportions of girls marrying or having children before the age of 18 have been declining in Uganda according to … than one third of girls still marry as children, and close to three in ten girls have their first child before turning 18 …

experiment provided information to parents about how to support their children's learning. Overall, the interventions induced …Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … effects among indigenous parents who have historically been discriminated and socially excluded - and improved student …

Kiribati is among the first few countries in the world to have undertaken a national census of children's early health … and development. This report presents data collected for 7,194 children aged 3 to 5 years across 21 of the country …'s islands. Data were collected on children's health and development, their learning environments at home, and their early …

children in the preschool years living in low-income countries. Using panel data on parenting, nutrition status, and early …Substantial work has demonstrated that early nutrition and home environments, including the degree to which children … receive cognitive stimulation and emotional support from parents, play a profound role in influencing early childhood …

When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial … social security on education investments in children. In a difference-in-differences framework, a significant increase in the …

Household expenditures for children-related goods may change when one of the parent migrates and do so differently … migration is accounted for using a set of instrumental variables derived from the model. Results show that when children are … of budget devoted to children remains unaffected because mothers compensate by giving up their own private consumption …

finds that children born into consanguineous marriages have lower test scores, lower height-for-age, and a higher likelihood … maternal grandparent mortality as instruments for consanguineous marriage of parents …

guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading. Three years after the end … of the intervention, the receptive vocabulary and the socio-emotional development of children of families participating … in either of the treatment arms improved (by 0.43 and 0.54 standard deviation, respectively) relative to children of …