education; less educated mothers appear to reinforce differences in non-cognitive skills between their children, while more … to catch-up in non-cognitive skills over time for children of more educated mothers … in life. This paper evaluates the parental response to variation in non-cognitive skills among their children in rural …

This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … restricted the mobility of Arabs in Israel until the mid-1960's. This change improved access to schooling in communities that … large increase in schooling attainment triggered a sharp decline in completed fertility. We show that no other changes …

compare mothers' and fathers' willingness to pay (WTP) for specific goods for their children, diverging from the previous …This paper tests whether mothers and fathers differ in their spending on their daughters relative to their sons. We … literature's approach of comparing the expenditure effects of mothers' versus fathers' income. Our method, which we apply in …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

. Using a regression discontinuity design and data for over 110,000 individuals, we study a compulsory schooling reform in the … UK that generated exogenous variation in schooling. While the reform succeeded in reducing educational disparities, it … did not weaken the relationship between early-life disadvantages and wages. This implies that advantaged children had …

stimulation program in Colombia, whose target population were low-income households with children aged 12 to 24 months at baseline …-child interactions and other maternal behaviors that foster the development of children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills. We show … that the vast majority of mothers believe that the technology of skill formation follows a Cobb-Douglas parameterization …

In this paper, we formulate a model of early childhood development in which mothers have subjective expectations about … affects the maternal choices of investments in the human capital of children. Unfortunately, the model is not identified from … data that are usually available to econometricians. To solve this problem, we conduct a study where mothers were …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college … educated mothers are particularly responsive to changes in environmental amenities. I estimate that differences in exposure to … toxic releases may explain 6% of the gap in incidence of low birth weight between infants of white college educated mothers …