the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are …

and behaviours. OLS regressions suggest an ambiguous association between alcohol exposure in utero and children's academic … attainment, but there is a strong social gradient in maternal drinking, with mothers in higher socio-economic groups more likely …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. -- teenage motherhood … ; education ; fertility ; children ; instrumental variables ; compulsory schooling laws …

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …

on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy effect is weaker and non-existent for older children and for girls suggesting that gender-directed conditional cash …

children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not … from six to eight weeks. Our estimation strategy exploits that the eligibility for the extended leave was determined by a … cutoff due date. As an additional source of exogenous variation, we use information on non-working mothers, who are not …

associated with the narrowing of non-cognitive deficits over time for children of more educated mothers, while there is no … acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how educational investments by parents may respond to children’s non … suggest that there is significant heterogeneity with respect to maternal education. More educated mothers appear to compensate …

Increasing mothers' labour supply in a child's preschool years can cause a reduction in time investments that lead to a … negative direct effect on mid-childhood and teenage outcomes. But as mothers' work hours increase, income will rise. We ask … variation in both mothers' hours and family income in pre-school years. As expected we find a negative direct effect of an …