-in-differences research design compares cohorts of children in treatment localities before and after the Law’s introduction to equivalent … creation of a better learning environment in elementary and middle school, with a greater sense of security and better …

We study the dynamics between intra-household bargaining and parental time-intensive investments in children. We … combine novel measures of verbal investments and beliefs about the returns to investment for both parents with hyper …-local variation in female bargaining power stemming from traditional inheritance practices. On average, mothers talk more to children …