, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

education, in addition to discussing how technological change creates new challenges for the taxation of income and consumption …

The relationship between human capital development and urbanization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is explored … reside in urban areas and in large cities, and the returns to education are significantly higher in urban areas relative to … returns to education in urban areas are at least comparable to the magnitude of private returns. Rural areas are the major …

presented. The key finding is that both preservice education and in-service training are positively correlated with labor … productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education … that competitiveness is enhanced both by raising the general level of education in the workforce and by encouraging …

impact both younger and older children. The average treated student in our setting has an expected income reduction of $5 …

We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …

Peru. We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did …

We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the … United States at the onset of formal education. Our identification strategy rests on the assumption that, conditional on … covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn children in a family is arguably exogenous. With regard to cognitive …

This paper studies the impact of migrant children on their parents' occupation choice and wage income using a dataset … from a household survey conducted in 2011. We find that the heads of migrant households with school-age children earn … characteristics, migration duration, origin location, and family structure. Households migrating with school-age children have a …

construction and household-level toilet subsidy programs in rural People's Republic of China (PRC) on children's education, health … significantly reduced maternal-child education persistence, while improving the upward education mobility of exposed children. Our … years after its implementation. Effects on education are larger for girls than for boys, and for toilet subsidy programs. On …