This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio …-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a … significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

fertility. As male education remains unchanged by the reforms, later life education reduces the pre-existing gender earnings gap …

children's health and cognitive outcomes, and explores whether shocks at certain periods matter more than others. The paper … variation in children's exposure to a negative shock at different periods early in life. It is shown that children exposed to …, children affected by the floods in the first trimester of pregnancy score lower on cognitive tests. Potential mechanisms are …

more likely to send their children to work. Further analyses suggest that such outcomes are driven by the need to maximise … relationship between risk aversion and child labour is causal and that risk aversion induces higher probabilities of children …

work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …