This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … restricted the mobility of Arabs in Israel until the mid-1960's. This change improved access to schooling in communities that … large increase in schooling attainment triggered a sharp decline in completed fertility. We show that no other changes …

education; less educated mothers appear to reinforce differences in non-cognitive skills between their children, while more … to catch-up in non-cognitive skills over time for children of more educated mothers … in life. This paper evaluates the parental response to variation in non-cognitive skills among their children in rural …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

. Using a regression discontinuity design and data for over 110,000 individuals, we study a compulsory schooling reform in the … UK that generated exogenous variation in schooling. While the reform succeeded in reducing educational disparities, it … did not weaken the relationship between early-life disadvantages and wages. This implies that advantaged children had …

stimulation program in Colombia, whose target population were low-income households with children aged 12 to 24 months at baseline …-child interactions and other maternal behaviors that foster the development of children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills. We show … that the vast majority of mothers believe that the technology of skill formation follows a Cobb-Douglas parameterization …

In this paper, we formulate a model of early childhood development in which mothers have subjective expectations about … affects the maternal choices of investments in the human capital of children. Unfortunately, the model is not identified from … data that are usually available to econometricians. To solve this problem, we conduct a study where mothers were …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college … educated mothers are particularly responsive to changes in environmental amenities. I estimate that differences in exposure to … toxic releases may explain 6% of the gap in incidence of low birth weight between infants of white college educated mothers …

between mothers that could bias estimates. Our results are consistent with recent experimental results in the neurobiological … development. Moreover, we find that not only are mothers with low levels of human capital characterized by higher and more …

association remains unclear. In this paper we consider a new explanation: that children born at different times in the year are … women giving birth throughout the year in the United States. Children born in the winter are disproportionally born to women …