children's cognitive outcomes. My identification strategy exploits geographical differences in terms of exposure to the program … children. In turn, the effect is only significant for mother with negative effect on the interaction between mother and … children, which means that there is a substitution effect, mother use this time to do something else. These findings call for …

This paper investigates the impact of attending early childcare on second generation immigrant children's cognitive … attendance differs between native and immigrant children. Although we find no effects for Italian children, our estimates show a … positive and significant effect on literacy test scores for immigrant children of low educated mothers, which suggests that …

Socio- Economic Survey (HSES) to examine the correlation between the presence of children of different age categories in a … family and female employment in Mongolia in 2016. We examine the availability of childcare, social norms and attitudes … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the …

Bengal in 2013 on children’s early enrollment in schools and subsequent test scores. Using double difference, triple …. Analyzing the test scores, we find that after the program's introduction, both math and reading scores of treated children did …

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …

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 …

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 …

) 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 …

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 …