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 …

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 …

presence of the parents-in-law, particularly the mother-in-law, shape the daughter-in-law's distribution of time between paid … state of residence. Overall, the results suggest that policies that aim to increase women's education and promote gender …

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 …

change the gender gaps in the intergenerational transmission. Our results are robust to different model specifications and …

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 …

conditional cash transfer that pays parents to invest in daughters, but existing evidence on their effectiveness is sparse. Using …

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