children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by … aggregate shocks and trends in unobservables within countries, while a panel of children within mother is exploited to control …. The interaction (gradient) effects are, in general, most marked for shorter women suggesting that children are more likely …

offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is …

children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for children's schooling in the U.S. Recent … as much as father's schooling for children's schooling. We also estimate the effect of parents' schooling separately by …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves …

the most recent available wave of a rich Danish longitudinal survey of children (the DALSC). All outcomes are measured at … age 11 when the children are expected to be in fifth grade. Once discrepancies are detected, we analyze whether they are …

the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are …

mothers spend with their children. Since the institutional context is one in which the alternative is subsidized day care, the …We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate …

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …

's counter-factual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and … care provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care-arrangements …

children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not … cutoff due date. As an additional source of exogenous variation, we use information on non-working mothers, who are not … children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …