of gift-giving can have a lasting detrimental health impact on their children. Using a primary census-type panel …

children from these marriages. Although second-generation immigrants with one native parent generally have lower dropout rates … unobservable background characteristics. That is, immigrants that marry natives have children that are more likely to dropout of …

children age 5 to 18 years in the American Community Survey, 2005-2011. Two groups of children are considered: those born in … the US (native born) and foreign-born children who immigrated prior to age 14 (the 1.5 generation). The analyses are … bilingualism, while a higher level of parental education tends to decrease it. Children of Asian and especially of Hispanic origin …

-born children of immigrants were asked to take Woodcock-Johnson achievement test. In both rounds, prior to the administration of … tests, children of Hispanic origin were randomly assigned to take the tests either in Spanish or in English. Therefore, we … suggest that in reading tests, U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants perform better, when they are assigned to take the …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of their children from the German Socio …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …

disruptions early in life can be long-lasting. Although there is evidence about the effects of school closures on older children …, there is currently no evidence on such losses for children in their early years. This paper is among the first to quantify … the actual impact of pandemic-related closures on child development, in this case for a sample of young children in Chile …