paper, we estimate the effect of in-service teacher training on children's reading and mathematics achievement in Jerusalem …

sanitary and infrastructure conditions) were more likely to obtain higher education, marry at an older age, have fewer children … almost 60 years, for both the affected cohorts and for their children. To do this, we exploit a natural experiment provided … faced by immigrant children were not correlated with other factors that affected the long-term outcomes of individuals. We …

families should lead to increased human capital, higher earnings, and, at the macro level, promote economic development …

be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special … the effect of maternal age and single parenthood on children's disability status and school progress. Our results suggest … that there is little association between maternal age at birth and children's disabilities. But the children of teen …

on issues involving children's education and discipline and increase parental inputs into their children's development …Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via … same time: empowering mothers through tools that also advance their children's development. A program operated by AVSI, an …

-experimental variation created by the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in May 24th 1991. Children in utero prior to immigration faced … that children exposed in an earlier stage of the pregnancy to better environmental conditions in utero have two decades … later higher educational attainment (lower repetition and dropout rates and higher Baccalaureate rate) and higher education …

parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …

This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … lacked schools and, as a consequence, significantly increased the education of affected cohorts, mainly of girls. The very … spousal labor-force participation and earnings as mechanisms in this fertility decline. Spousal education increased however …

Does the intellectual endowment of children affect parents' fertility choices? The quantity-quality model of fertility … predicts that a positive (negative) shock to child endowment increases (decreases) parental demand for children. We test these … predictions using Israeli data on intellectually gifted and intellectually disabled children. Because families with an exceptional …