secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … educated and affluent parents do much better on the screening tests that regulate access to the most selective tertiary …

explain the underinvestment of parents in their children's human capital. We first incorporate these two potential mechanisms …

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining … educational activities and less time on physical and media related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very …

they take their daughters, and (3) the fact that parents of boy students spend more on their children's education can be … largely explained by the extra costs of schooling for migrant households. Finally, we show that the parents of rural children … probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts that school age girls will migrate with their parents-a difference that is …

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 many societies, parents prefer sons over daughters, but the well-being effects of child gender, especially in later … aging population and the traditional preference for sons. Studying the cohort of parents whose child gender is as good as … paper evaluates the impacts of having daughters on older parents' subjective well-being (SWB) in China, which has a rapidly …

the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the … presence of conflicting 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 …

-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the … unobserved family, community, and school factors shared by siblings when growing up together. The estimates suggest that sibling …