suggests that mothers' paid work increased substantially following the introduction of the child care program. I then study the … implications of the Lanham Act for children's long-run outcomes related to educational attainment, family formation, and labor …

prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen … (residual) income, as well as assortative mating. Despite very similar trends and levels for mothers in the US and Sweden, we …

on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy effect is weaker and non-existent for older children and for girls suggesting that gender-directed conditional cash …

This paper evaluates the long-term consequences of parental death on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills, as … skills (emotional stability, social skills) shows rather small effects on each type of skill. We find that both mothers and … fathers are important, but mothers are somewhat more important for cognitive skills and fathers for noncognitive ones …

for children of mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of unpaid leave …We study the impact on children of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year by … school dropout. For mothers with low education we find a 5.2 percentage points decline. The effect is also especially large …

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

to transfer their human capital to their children. Finally, focusing only on non-infected mothers and their children, we …) for 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa that provide information on mother's HIV status and enable us to link mothers and … their children. The data also allow us to distinguish between two separate channels that are likely to differentially affect …

of maternal autonomy on school enrolment age of children in India. The school entry age is modelled using a discrete time …

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 investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … childcare availability has positive and significant effects on both mothers' working status and children's language test scores …. The effects are stronger when the degree of rationing is high and for low educated mothers and children living in lower …