secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … students in Hebrew-language schools from eighth grade to age 29, we provide evidence that despite Israeli schools being …

-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …

traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility-as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction …

square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB …In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting … the cohort and provincial variations of elderly parents exposed to the one-child policy in China. Using nationally …

resources, and parents' working time when growing up. These findings imply that the adverse effects associated with parental …

-behind families and children left much to be desired. This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the impact of parental … migration on the welfare of left-behind children in the Philippines so that policies can be devised to support them. This study … temper of left-behind children. However, they tend to be more physically sickly. This warrants government attention to …

We examine how first in family (FiF) graduates (those whose parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor … market. We find that among women, FiF graduates earn 7.4% less on average than graduate women whose parents have a university … to those who match their parents with a degree. The effects of coming from a lower educated family are large and positive …