Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited … impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …

Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in … which these programs may affect children's activities. Based on a cluster-randomized trial, we examine how a program … providing capital and training to women in poor rural communities in Nicaragua affected children. Children in beneficiary …

investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the … children quantity-quality trade-off proposed by Becker that has been investigated only for a few countries because of data … limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children …

We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little … attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities … mechanisms: parental role model directly influencing children behavior, intergenerational transmission of preferences, or network …

early health shocks for children.We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …

When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial … security on educational investments in children. With a difference-in-differences framework, we find a significant increase in …

variation to look at the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the …

is absent for children of preschool age.We also find that (1) boys are more likely to migrate following the reduction in … the number of rural primary schools, (2) migrant households with multiple children tend to take their sons to migrate more … than they take their daughters, and (3) the fact that parents of boy students spend more on their children's education can …