on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … uncorrelated with the ones driving location choice of families given the migration patterns in Mexico. However, the positive … autonomy effect is weaker and non-existent for older children and for girls suggesting that gender-directed conditional cash …

two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies – augmented with a …

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

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves …

introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July … expenditure or their consumption of directly child-related goods and services. Instead, eligible mothers stayed out of the labor … force significantly longer after giving birth, which in turn led to their children spending less time in formal child care …

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 …

In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond … previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults rather than agents, we develop a noncooperative model …

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 …