assessments. Mothers might react to having a poorly developing child by dropping out of the formal labor force in order to spend …

, children of working mothers have a lower probability of attending school. This, together with the result that only illiterate …This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their mother's working status when the … mother decides how to allocate her time and that of her children. A multilevel random effects model is applied to study the …

explaining earnings instability. To study the evolution over time of these different components we extract two estimation samples …

these expansions are correlated with employment and leave-taking for both mothers and fathers over this period. Our main … finding is that leave expansions have increased the amount of time that new mothers and fathers spend on leave, with effects …

, striking differences still emerge in the timing of leaving home for adult children. In Southern countries (as Spain, Italy or …

score bias among children of Hispanic immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits the test language randomization … costs associated with taking a test in one's non-dominant language. We find that U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants … assimilation occurs at a rapid pace for foreign born children as well; children who arrive in the U.S. at an early age or who have …

change in household income on the young adult outcomes of the household's children. In this research, we examine the role … in the long run outcomes for children in affected households. We find that children who are in households affected by the … mechanisms through which this exogenous increase in household income affects the long run outcomes of children - parental time …