the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs … significantly, disadvantaged American children living in much more challenging circumstances, and the role of public policy not as …

Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 … educational attainment, (5) are increasingly likely to originate in southern Mexico and the Mexico City Metropolitan area, and (6 …) are increasingly likely to depart from urban areas within Mexico. Although we find no direct evidence that the …

This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent …

Exogenous variation in fertility from parental preferences for sex-mix among their children is used to identify the … causal effect of family size on several measures associated with either the allocation of resources towards children within … the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative …

Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of …. First, we show that children living in municipality with high conflict have a gap in education enrollment and accumulation … respectively. Our results suggest significant education accumulation and enrollment gaps for children of IDPs that widens to over …

exposure of children to the shock. The paper uniquely identifies both the short- and medium-term impacts of the earthquake … collected one and six years after the earthquake. Colombia provides a unique setting for our study because the government …

with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to …