parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child … migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the … effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses …

migration and within-family variation. We find evidence of a positive impact of parents' years since migration on children … of each parent's years since migration on their children's school achievements. We exploit local variation in years since …

in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause …This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind … relational and psychological problems that may affect children's welfare in the long-term. The phenomenon of children left behind …

Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the … vulnerable position of Germany?s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as … improvements in day care provision for children. With respect to selected non-monetary as well as monetary indicators our empirical …

likely that children who migrate face different challenges in attaining high school credentials depending upon their age at … immigration. This paper examines the education outcomes of a cohort of immigrants who arrived in Canada as children. The 2006 … Census is used and it is found that there is in fact a distinct change in the chances that children will hold a high …

. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

evidence, we find a positive effect of both parents education on their children?s schooling achievements when focusing on … natural parents only. Step parents have no or a negative impact on children?s education. In most cases, the endogeneity of … Seventies in Britain. This strategy identifies the effect of parental schooling only for parents with a lower taste for …

parents may compensate or reinforce children?s endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents? knowledge of their children?s endowments and about the technology used to … childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in …

adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and … prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents represents broad post-birth factors, such as childhood environment …

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …