We consider the life cycle choices of a household that in each period decides how much to consume and how to allocate …, spouses' wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to … transitory and permanent wage shocks. These structural parameters describe the ability of household to self-insure in response to …

measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children … $2,100, between 1993 and 1997. Using a panel of roughly 4,500 children matched to their mothers from National … math and reading test scores by 6% of a standard deviation in the short-run. Test gains are larger for children from …

This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to … estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0 … children during the 1940s offer relatively poor opportunities for Black youth today. Opportunities for Black children were …

: the link between the household head's risk and time preferences and observed child labor supply. We develop a theoretical … model and empirically test for this causality using data from the seventh round of the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey. We …

affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor … supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is children aged 7-18 in households in which both parents usually coreside and … is not affected. We find no evidence that paternal temporary absence influences his children in terms of school …

. Extreme poverty is another factor lowering school attendance, as children who have suffered hunger at some point in their …

novel results. From a theoretical point of view, for any given transfer size, there is a critical level of household income … cash transfer, in Lesotho. We show that the poorest households do not increase investment in children's human capital … cash transfers might not be always effective to support the investment in children's human capital of the poorest …

' incomes and subsequently their spending decisions. This study uses household-level panel data from a nationally representative … deviations from long-term average – on education expenditures and children's work status in rural Indian households.Our results … considerable heterogeneity based on household and regional characteristics …