the short-run effects of parents' illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … health that makes a difference as far as child schooling is concerned. Children whose mothers self reported having poor … and depression symptoms. Moreover, we find that mothers' health shocks have more negative consequences on younger children …

the effects of migration on children depend on which of their parents migrates. I describe the migration of one of the … mechanism generates no difference in the share of total household income devoted to investment on children no matter which of …This paper analyzes the effects of parental migration on children left behind in order to understand whether and how …

rich combination of Italian data allowing us to produce comparable measures of IM of income for 103 Italian provinces. We …-sectional income inequality is larger. We finally explore the correlation between IM and several socio-political outcomes, such as …

0.29 standard deviations. Students in treatment schools progress further through the grades, compared to students in non …-selected schools. These upgraded schools are effective at getting children into school, getting children to start school on time, and … keeping children in school longer. Overall, we find that the schools sustain the large impacts observed about three years …

children of immigrants is quite heterogeneous across countries, and strongly related to achievements of the parent generation … characteristics. Second, we provide novel analysis of cross-country comparisons of test scores of children from the same country of … the children of Turkish immigrants is lower than that of their native peers, it is still higher than that of children of …

achievement. The analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data on two cohorts of vocational training students in Italy … only disproportionately high shares of immigrants but also the lowest ability native students. We adopt a value added model … average effects on maths test scores that are larger for low ability native students, strongly non-linear and only observable …

(miscarriages) and infertility shocks. Yet, the chances to migrate are not equally distributed across children within the family …