-household bargaining. This paper uses primary data on women's social networks in Uttarakhand, India; the modal woman has only three friends … household; perceived social norms; and an outcome of household bargaining: investments in her children. The analysis instruments …

limit investments in some children's education so that they will not find it optimal to migrate when they reach maturity … the family farm or provide care and assistance around the house). However, children themselves may prefer to migrate when …. Because awareness of these high-paying, high education, urban jobs was limited at baseline, the intervention increased the …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million … children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background … development …

number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint … plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV … determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is …

response of schooling to risk. We develop a model that incorporates, dynamic complementarity in the education production … the household. We test the model using data from rural India, focusing particularly on the schooling of girls. We find … risk-reducing effect of the NREGS may offset adverse effects on child education that were evident during the NREGS phase …

This paper develops a model of skill formation that explains a variety of findings established in the child development …

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor … Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education … by three years as an instrument. This results in a private rate of return on the order of 16 percent for higher education …

Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition …. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …