Papers in this volume and elsewhere consistently find a strong relationship between children's cognitive abilities and … their parents' socio-economic position (SEP). Most studies seeking to explain the paths through which SEP affects cognitive … determinant of children's cognitive abilities, namely parental cognitive ability. A range of econometric strategies have been …

, affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. In our empirical specification we use household … income reduction associated with it, whereas for girls, changes in the household decision-maker appear to play an important … role. -- Child labour ; Schooling ; Adverse event ; Income loss ; Credit and insurance market failures ; Bargaining …

It is well known that children growing up in poor families leave school with considerably lower qualifications than … children from better off backgrounds. Using a simple decomposition analysis, we show that around two thirds of the socio … behaviours of young people and their parents during the teenage years play a key role in explaining the rich-poor gap in GCSE …

follow two cohorts of students in England - those who took GCSEs in 2001-02 and 2002-03 - from age 11 to age 20. The findings … hold for both state and private school students. This suggests that poor attainment in secondary schools is more important … in explaining lower HE participation rates amongst students from disadvantaged backgrounds than barriers arising at the …

supply, are affected by parents' knowledge of the child health production function. …

, strongly suggests that the channel through which departure affects children is through reducing income. It also highlights the …This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school … enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children's school …