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. …

from the IDEFICS study of children aged 2-9 in 16 regions of eight European countries. Based on such data as accelerometer …

children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by … aggregate shocks and trends in unobservables within countries, while a panel of children within mother is exploited to control …. The interaction (gradient) effects are, in general, most marked for shorter women suggesting that children are more likely …

mothers spend with their children. Since the institutional context is one in which the alternative is subsidized day care, the …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 …

on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy effect is weaker and non-existent for older children and for girls suggesting that gender-directed conditional cash …

offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is …

children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for children's schooling in the U.S. Recent … as much as father's schooling for children's schooling. We also estimate the effect of parents' schooling separately by …

the most recent available wave of a rich Danish longitudinal survey of children (the DALSC). All outcomes are measured at … age 11 when the children are expected to be in fifth grade. Once discrepancies are detected, we analyze whether they are …

children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies …