on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … uncorrelated with the ones driving location choice of families given the migration patterns in Mexico. However, the positive … autonomy effect is weaker and non-existent for older children and for girls suggesting that gender-directed conditional cash …

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

introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July … expenditure or their consumption of directly child-related goods and services. Instead, eligible mothers stayed out of the labor … force significantly longer after giving birth, which in turn led to their children spending less time in formal child care …

The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential … negative impact of the mother's absence from home on child outcomes. Recent data show that mother's time spent with children … has declined in the last decade, while the indicators of children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes have worsened. The …

their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …

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

on her child’s secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … uncorrelated with the ones driving location choice of families given the migration patterns in Mexico. However, the positive … autonomy effect is weaker and non-existent for older children and for girls suggesting that gender-directed conditional cash …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline … in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of assortative mating; (v) more children living with a single …