Republic in promoting investments in children. Based on the capabilities approach to well-being initiated by Sen (2010), we … look at the impact of remittances and domestic transfer payments primarily from internal migration on children's education … children, and health habits of older children. We use unique panel data from the Kyrgyz Republic for 2005-2008 and thus control …

Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation …

for fathers. The presence of a childcare worker per child reduces the time cost of children to a couple of parents by 5% …This article uses data from the 1998-1999 French INSEE time use survey to estimate the time costs of children. The …

This paper explores the relationship between self-employment, partner's employment, the household and children on a … be self-employed as compared to parents who have chosen formal, gainful employment. We focus on the data from the … countries. Other effects such as human capital, household income, presence of grandmothers and number of young children indicate …

about 75 percent of the intergenerational correlation in education is driven by the joint contribution of the parents. We … intergenerational transmission from both parents; a fall compensated by an increase in parent-specific intergenerational transmission …

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …. We test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score …

effects; earlier born children stay behind in their human capital development from early childhood to adolescence. Turning to … potential mechanisms we find that earlier born children receive less quality time from their mothers than later born children …. In addition, they are breastfed shorter. The estimated birth order effects are largest for children in their teens …

When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial … security on educational investments in children. With a difference-in-differences framework, we find a significant increase in …

How do parental resources early in life affect children's health and schooling outcomes? We address this question by …. The effects are prevalent primarily among children to high-income mothers. Impacts are driven by a combination of a …