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 …

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 … Swedish Twin Registry, we replicate the finding that father's schooling matters more than mother's schooling in a combined …

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

the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children's anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …