for children’s marriage. This paper investigates how a demographic factor - a large number of surplus men in the marriage … ratios among children and intense smoking among fathers. Considering worsening sex ratios and highly competitive marriage …

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

, 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 …

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 …

This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on children's school resilience. Using an individual fixed … school attendance after the lockdown was lifted. The results show that COVID-19 lockdown measures reduced children …'s probability of attending school after the school system reopened. This negative impact increased with children's age, reaching a …

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

square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB …In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting … the cohort and provincial variations of elderly parents exposed to the one-child policy in China. Using nationally …

presence of the parents-in-law, particularly the mother-in-law, shape the daughter-in-law's distribution of time between paid …

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 … punished by their parents. Focusing on son preference as a potential mechanism generating birth order effects, our tests show …