It has been argued that since 2014, under the BJP-led central government, welfare benefits in India have become better …

either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to … policies favor vocational education will grow slower in equilibrium than one that favors general education. Moreover, the gap … education subsidy policy we demonstrate that the optimal subsidy for general education increases with the growth rate of …

. Contrary to some earlier interpretations, the system did not arbitrarily indent poor children. Court officials negotiated … of indenting indigent children. Black and white children received comparable compensation during the term of the … indenture, but blacks were promised and received substantially less education than whites. It was in the provision of education …

We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …

Income Dynamics (PSID). We find that children raised by step, adoptive or foster mothers obtain significantly less education …In this paper we compare the educational attainment of birth and non-birth children of women in the Panel Study of … on average than do the birth children of the same women. Controlling for the women's fixed effects, the non …

achievement of children between the ages of five and nine. We estimate both cross sectional and fixed effects models using data … literature. First, we find only a weak relationship between several measures of child health and child cognitive development …

controlling for maternal scores, there are significant gaps in the scores of black and white children which suggests that maternal … scores are not all that matter. In fact, both maternal education and income are important determinants of child test scores …, conditional on maternal AFQT. We argue that racial gaps in test scores matter because even within families, children with higher …

This paper analyzes the relationship between maternal labor supply and children's cognitive development, using a sample … of three- and four-year-old children of female respondents from the 1986 National Longitudinal Surveys Youth Cohort (NLSY …). Respondents in the NLSY were aged 21 to 29 in 1986; thus our sample consists of children of relatively young mothers. We show that …

In this paper we evaluate the degree to which the adverse parental divorce effect on university education operates … education outcome. Non-economic mechanisms, such as psychological and mental shocks, are more likely to dominate. Our further …