-parametric estimator of the effect of parental income on the decision to send children to school. We propose new tests for detecting the …

‐appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read‐athon. [Working paper No. 305]. URL: [http …

and fertility - discusses the social theory background, opportunity cost of children, economic, political, psychic and …

, parents and children, while women helped their children. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/311.pdf]. …, Indonesia, before and after the tsunami. Children, older adults and females were the least likely to survive. Whereas socio …

analysis of child growth data for approximately 99,000 children in 19 countries with some of the highest burdens of …

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the impact of parental health shocks on investments in children …, more precise, health indicators. Results show that co-living children of ill mothers, but not of ill fathers, are … shocks are likely to raise the employment probability of children due to the need to cover higher health expenditures. …

Parents may have important effects on their children, but little work in economics explores whether children …'s schooling opportunities crowd out or encourage parents' investment in children. We analyze data from the Head Start Impact Study … substantial increase in parents' involvement with their children—such as time spent reading to children, math activities, or days …

-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning; children born in auspicious years are more likely to have …