A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes … program is associated with better educational outcomes of their children. Father's participation in the NREGS, on the other … hand, has a negative effect on children's education. Further, the estimated impact of mother's program participation is …

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 …. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this selection problem by looking within the family to exploit variation in …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children's enrollment in upper secondary …

parents may compensate or reinforce children?s endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … own consumption and children?s wellbeing, estimation is complicated by endowment heterogeneity and by the fact that … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents? knowledge of their children?s endowments and about the technology used to …

We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …

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 …

large-scale physical destruction on the educational attainment, health status and labor market outcomes of German children … school-age during WWII. First, these children had 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood, with those in the … most hard-hit cities completing 1.2 fewer years. Second, these children were about half inches (one centimeter) shorter and …

adopted and own birth children to obtain genetically unbiased estimates. Our results provide a much better insight on whether … parents (and policy makers) can actually stimulate the educational attainment of future generations. Controlling for inherited …

This paper investigates the importance of parents reading to their young children. Using Australian data we find that … parental reading to children at age 4 to 5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills of these … children at least up to age 10 or 11. Our findings are robust to a wide range of sensitivity analyses. …