compulsory schooling from five to eight years, on the developmental outcomes of children aged 36 to 59 months. We draw upon data … increase in maternal educational attainment and corresponding enhancements in children's readiness to learn. Exploring the … underlying mechanisms, we find a notable expansion in the number and variety of activities parents, especially fathers, engage in …

The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in …

parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents …We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents … respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on …

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …

Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …

and sons. -- Bosnia and Herzegovina ; children ; education ; parents ; school ; self-reported health … 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 …

children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children …Studies on the intergenerational transmission of human capital usually assume a one-way spillover from parents to …

affects her children's health, but is also intrinsically linked to her spouse's labor market status and earnings. Paternal … health appears to be more linked to child schooling outcomes, especially for girls. When both parents are in poor health, the … negative effects on their children are compounded. Additionally, the consequences of poor parental health are enduring. Longer …

Republic in promoting investments in children. Based on the capabilities approach to well-being initiated by Sen (2010), we … look at the impact of remittances and domestic transfer payments primarily from internal migration on children's education … children, and health habits of older children. We use unique panel data from the Kyrgyz Republic for 2005-2008 and thus control …