We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a … administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm the findings in the previous literature that children who are slightly below the … spillovers on all our measures of academic achievement. Our estimates suggest that siblings of focal children who were slightly …

steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses …

divorce has persistent, and mostly negative, effects on children that differ significantly between boys and girls. Treated …

migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes …. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during …

Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the … vulnerable position of Germany?s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as … improvements in day care provision for children. With respect to selected non-monetary as well as monetary indicators our empirical …

larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …

We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …

hundred children in a variety of strategic interactions. First, we find that theory-of-mind ability and cognitive ability both … predict level-k behavior. Second, older children respond to information about the cognitive ability of their opponent, which … whether children respond to intentions in a gift-exchange game, while cognitive ability has no influence, suggesting that …