all children born before (control group) and after the reform (treatment group) in cohorts of up to 27,000 newborns … sick children, which is our measure for household work. …

In this paper we examine the effect of birth order on human capital development in Ecuador using a large national … effects; earlier born children stay behind in their human capital development from early childhood to adolescence. Turning to … potential mechanisms we find that earlier born children receive less quality time from their mothers than later born children …

Over the last decade Ecuador has experienced a strong increase in financial transfers from migrated workers, amounting … remittances on school enrolment and child work in Ecuador. Identification relies on instrumental variables, exploiting information … household’s investments in human capital of school age children. In this context both child labour supply and transnational …

of children aged between 7 and 14, we find strong aversion to lying at all ages. Lying is driven mainly by selfish … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others … at no monetary cost. Older children lie less than younger children and require more self-justification to lie. …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the … probability of marital disruption. In addition, the younger the children, the greater the deterrent effect. In contrast, we …

commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited … different functions among different groups. The poor and less educated are much more likely to rear children in cohabitating … relationships. The college educated typically cohabit before marriage, but they marry before conceiving children and their marriages …

causal effect of having children on female labor supply using IVF treated women in Denmark. Because observed chances of IVF …

have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This …