We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …

challenges and offers policy recommendations to ensure inclusivity in education for children with disabilities …This study seeks to examine gender gaps and disability issues in education in Indonesia, and to suggest policy actions … outcomes and educational achievement for all children. Secondary data analysis shows that Indonesia has demonstrated great …

in childhood on primary school enrollment status, using pseudo-panel data for children ages six to nine years in …-a difference of 8 to 10 percentage points-for children ages six to seven. It is also strong in rural areas. The results are …

We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy …

employment with adverse effects on children's education, we find that among low-income families, regulatory reforms: increased …What is the impact of regulatory reforms that enhance credit market efficiency on children's human capital? Using a … parent-child panel dataset, we find that such reforms reduced children's academic performance in low-income families …

limit investments in some children's education so that they will not find it optimal to migrate when they reach maturity … the family farm or provide care and assistance around the house). However, children themselves may prefer to migrate when …. Because awareness of these high-paying, high education, urban jobs was limited at baseline, the intervention increased the …

number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint … plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV … determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is …

intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections … mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India …

paper, we estimate the effect of in-service teacher training on children's reading and mathematics achievement in Jerusalem …