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 …

whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference … have sharpened over time. The findings of this study underscore the role played by early marriage in altering the gender …-specific attitudes prevalent in the society, and highlight existing gender inequality traps. …

own-gender peers who are depressed. We find a significant peer effect for females but not for males. An increase of one … standard deviation of the share of own-gender peers (schoolmates) who are depressed increases the probability of depression in … suggesting that family can function as a buffer. Our findings underscore the importance of peer relationships in adolescence with …

adolescents, favoring earlier-born children within household in academic achievement and cognitive skill measures. We highlight … harsh parenting as a novel channel of birth order effects, in which earlier-born children are less likely to be physically …

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

children aged below five years. Using detailed dataset from the current and fourth round of the National Family Health Survey … likelihood of her children being malnourished. When we focus on identifying the pathways through which domestic violence affect … health, neglect of children in terms of inadequate provision of essential child care also seem to matter. The results from …

) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio … family into one of two clusters, with either relatively patient, risk-tolerant and pro-social members or relatively impatient …, risk averse and spiteful members. Socio-economic background variables correlate with the cluster to which a family belongs …

parents to their children. Attempts to empirically measure the strength of this transmission relied so far on the cross …-sectional regression of the trust of children on the contemporaneous trust of their parents. We introduce a new identification strategy … which hinges on a panel of parents and their children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Our results show that: 1 …

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 …