Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the … opposite direction? This paper shows that the behavior of family structure variables over the life cycle dramatically changes …

Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied … the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how … parental migration affects children's non-cognitive development. We use longitudinal data of children in rural China and adopt …

In this note, I address the trade-off between children’s health and parental preference toward similarity with children …. In my model, better-off individuals mate genetically close partners and then use wealth to treat their children’s health … problems, caused by inbreeding depression. As a result, the relationship between parental wealth and children’s health includes …

the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the … presence of con icting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio …) induces an increase in the number of children, but a decrease in the quality of children. Second, using the impact of World …

-price, still vivid in many regions of the country, may provide incentives for parents to marry their daughter earlier, when faced … Turkish Demographic and Health Surveys 1998 to 2013. To study the role of payments to the bride's parents, we interact our …

parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a … national basis. This chapter reviews various types of leave policies available for working mothers (or parents) across … countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …