children's performance only through parents. We find that one additional score point in the origin country performance in math …In this study, we provide evidence that parents' beliefs about the value of math, in terms of successful employment …, have a positive impact on children's math scores. This result is robust to the reverse causality issue that characterizes …

This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine … children who lost one parent during childhood, we find a series of striking patterns which show that the relationship is … largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in …

are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation … the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … suggest that policy efforts to keep separated parents geographically closer together for the sake of the children may, in fact …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases 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 …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …

will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

This paper assesses how the economic support provided by parents to young adults as they complete their education and … disadvantage are more likely to be residentially and financially independent of their parents than are their peers growing up in …

, especially among older children and children from less educated households. This supports a conjecture that emigration in …We study the relationship between migration and children's education in Tajikistan – one of the poorest and most … remittance-dependent economies in the world. The analysis of a unique three-wave household panel survey reveals that emigration …

and quality of time parents spend with their children, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child's initial … children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and …