and behaviours. OLS regressions suggest an ambiguous association between alcohol exposure in utero and children's academic … attainment, but there is a strong social gradient in maternal drinking, with mothers in higher socio-economic groups more likely …

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 …

mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and … parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on …

welfare state arrangements for disadvantaged mothers with young children in Germany. …-income, first-time mothers. A major goal of the program is to improve the participants’ economic self-sufficiency and family …

This study investigated the effects of divorce on educational gaps in mothers’ economic resources. The results shed new …, we estimated correlated random-effects models to examine educational gaps in divorce-related changes of mothers … in mothers’ economic resources did not widen after divorce. Instead, we found partial support for the competing notion of …

significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …