the possibility that parents obtain informal income insurance by letting their children work. We test this hypothesis by … examining the relationship between household income shocks and human capital investment in children. In particular, we … investigate whether children’s propensity to join school and to drop out of school responds to transient shocks. We also …

deaths, influence the acquisition of human capital of children, in the long run, and investigates whether some periods of … disasters, deaths and market shocks are found to negatively affect educational attainments of children in urban households …

of their working schedule on the number of children they intend to have. The statistical analysis, based on a “ceteris …

because of working-life organisation, or feel children as a brake for career would be young people, women, without children …

transfers on children's school enrollment and labor participation with (2) ex post impact estimates. The ex ante estimation of …

early marriage reduces a mother's ability to take good care of her children: the harmful physical consequences of early sex …