The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in …

Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation …

Republic in promoting investments in children. Based on the capabilities approach to well-being initiated by Sen (2010), we … look at the impact of remittances and domestic transfer payments primarily from internal migration on children's education … children, and health habits of older children. We use unique panel data from the Kyrgyz Republic for 2005-2008 and thus control …

. 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 …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

effects; earlier born children stay behind in their human capital development from early childhood to adolescence. Turning to … potential mechanisms we find that earlier born children receive less quality time from their mothers than later born children …. In addition, they are breastfed shorter. The estimated birth order effects are largest for children in their teens …

Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence …

We consider a case where some of the parents have higher ability to raise children than others. First-best policy gives … induces more able parents to have the first-best number of children, and to invest in each child at the first-best level. Less … able parents are induced to have fewer children than in first best, and will underinvest in each child. Whether the …

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 …

explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the children of displaced workers and also the … first to consider whether there are any harmful effects for children who are not yet born when the separation occurs. I use … detailed work and fertility histories from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to estimate the effect of parents' job …