childhood are more likely to send their children to work. We also look at the effect of social norms on the parents' child labor …

of future consumption. If some of the work children do is not observable by the government, a ban may be only apparently … effi cient level, it can borrow from the international credit market to subsidize parents, and tax their children's future …

, internal remittances increase the labor force participation of the youngest children in the 5-11 age group, with girls being … occupations. By contrast, international remittances impact the oldest children in the 14-17 age group. While girls in this age …

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 …

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

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 …