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 …

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 …

family members. Although emphasizing the importance of the nuclear family, the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform and a … brothers, sisters, and adult children of U.S. citizens. Under the proposed system, those relatives could not obtain U.S. visas … criteria matched to 1990 Census data, we examine the effect of family admissions on immigrant education, selfemployment, and …

. Importantly, we find that socio-economic status of a family has no explanatory power as soon as we control for parents' economic … 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 …

This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data … from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS 2010 and 2014). Applying pooled OLS, instrumental variables and fixed …

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 …

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 …

-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 …

after controlling for local unemployment, individual and family characteristics, parental job loss expectations, financial … resources, and parents' working time when growing up. These findings imply that the adverse effects associated with parental …