children under 18 have been left behind, with an average parental absence of 9.5 months. Using detailed information on family …This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind … in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause …

In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained … theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that includes aspects of the transnational network … immigrants have at least partly different determinants. Acquiring German citizenship increases the probability of family …

This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children's well-being. Using data from …

migration of children has a significant positive impact on child school attendance rates while that of adults has a … significantly negative effect, and that remittances have no influence. These findings suggest that migration of children is indeed … controversial effects when children are left behind. In fact, lack of supervision and children working substituting adults in their …

mother’s participation and the schooling status of her children in a joint framework. Using the second National Family Health …This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their mother’s working status when the … mother decides how to allocate her time and that of her children. A multilevel random effects model is applied to study the …

and the women’s data set. Our results show that the presence of the mother in the family increases children welfare, in … stay home and send her children to school the better is the father’s employment position and the wealthier is the family … at the international level, that is, how to invest in women’s rights to advance the rights of both women and children. We …

welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent by parents looking after their children and … working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, the study focuses on mono-nuclear families with children under …

-level information on the intensity of the conflict, we examine the impact of the civil war on infant and child mortality. War exposure … mortality for the exposed and the unexposed birth cohorts. We find large positive effects of exposure to the conflict on infant … children who were only exposed while in utero. This evidence points to the existence of long-term disruptive effects on the …

This study provides a comparison of the size and value of unpaid family care work in two European member States, Italy … are employed to separately estimate the value of family childcare and care of the elderly. The results show that, overall …, in Italy the number of people performing family care work is higher, also due to the larger population. Italians …