California births from 1991-2002, including nearly 100,000 births within 20 minutes of midnight, and find that children born just …

children. The effects are larger for rural, poorer and low-caste families and for families with less educated mothers. However … number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint … determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is …

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 …, which granted randomly-chosen preschool-aged children the opportunity to attend Head Start. We find that Head Start causes a …

-school age children but did not benefit children who were older. We exploit the variation in access to the program generated by … regarding violence against women. An increase in education has also reduced the number of desired children by women and …

children from households where English is not the primary language, for children whose mothers have less than a high school … education, and for non-white children. To capture more general effects on human capital, we also study the effect of childhood …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

Colombia's PACES program provided over 125,000 poor children with vouchers that covered half the cost of private …

children and teenagers. This extension is important because it provides an additional opportunity to test for sibling sex …

Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the mothers as well as those of … their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this imply that policies …