This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child … migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the … effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses …

economic uncertainty. Using various educational measures, we show that the children born during this nativity slump perform … observed personal characteristics. These children are also less likely to have grown up within stable family environment … children. Finally, sibling analysis enables us to reject time of birth effects. …

leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age … effects on sons than daughters. We find that the education effects remain significant even when household income is included …. Moreover, decomposing the income when the child is 16 between a permanent component and shocks to income at age 16 only the …