in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause … children under 18 have been left behind, with an average parental absence of 9.5 months. Using detailed information on family …This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind …

uncertainty about the future of the family unit and its resources. Understanding these impacts is important given the critical …

. Changes in parental investment behavior cause this reduction in children's English skills. Parents are less likely to enroll … at home. Parents also reduce time spent on leisure and socializing, providing children with fewer opportunities to …We study the spillover effects of immigration enforcement policies on children's human capital. Exploiting the temporal …

alone. Children enter the foster care system when their parents are apprehended, deported and unable to care for them. We … the share of Hispanic children in foster care anywhere between 15 and 21 percent. The effects appear to be driven by the …

to gauge its impact on children's propensity to live without their parents in households headed by relatives or friends … socioeconomic costs of being raised without parents or in a single-headed household, gaining a better understanding of the … collateral damage of heightened enforcement on the families to which these children belong is well warranted. …

immigrants based on their offspring nationality. The policy, intended to facilitate family reunification, was enacted in a 2011 … Royal Decree in Spain. It recognized the ability for undocumented parents to become temporary legal residents if they had a …

are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation … the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … suggest that policy efforts to keep separated parents geographically closer together for the sake of the children may, in fact …

We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non …-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common … unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using …

for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market …

these effects are much more limited in magnitude. We also analyze children of migrants and show that parents' time in the … results show that the children who arrived at a higher age had substantially lower shares of natives among their neighbors …