, or divorce on children's school enrollment, for children aged from 7 to 22. We find children from two-parent families …-family types, the negative effect on children of parental divorce is higher than that of parental death, while the effect of … parental migration is the lowest. Comparing the effect of single-father and single-mother households, we find that children …

The common finding of a zero or negative correlation between the presence of children and parental well-being continues … overall data and then for most different marital statuses. Children are expensive: controlling for financial difficulties … children are the same, with stepchildren commonly having a more negative correlation than children from the current …

covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that …

in energy poverty in adulthood. We find that people who had a parent who smoked when they were young are 0.8 to 1 ….4 percentage points more likely to be in energy poverty later in life. Various checks suggest that this relationship can be … channels through which early life exposure to passive smoking increases the likelihood of being in energy poverty. Our results …

the host community's children in Nigeria. Our identification strategy characterizes affected children based on distance … heterogeneities between the household and the closest IDP camp, as well as the child's birth year. We find that children residing … professional employment and a significant increase in vaccination intake for affected children. …

This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …

Socio- Economic Survey (HSES) to examine the correlation between the presence of children of different age categories in a … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …

In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB …) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children …

fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children’s economic preferences …