-in-difference estimations show that the reform resulted in rising employment rates for mothers of six-year-old children. The effect is lower for …This paper uses the introduction of preparatory school classes targeting six-year-old children in Romania to study … mothers living in households with elderly people, but larger for those facing stronger trade-offs prior to the reform. Overall …

had no environmental impact on children s schooling. Interestingly, mothers education matters more for girls, while …Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature …, more nurture, or both? The author uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children …

parenting quality in a developing country. They use a sample of over 3,000 predominantly poor pre-school age children from … older than younger children, and there is greater dispersion in scores among older children. They find that household … socioeconomic characteristics, in particular wealth and parental education, are "protective"-children from wealthier households with …

in average height across developing countries are not well explained by differences in wealth. In particular, children in … India are shorter, on average, than children in Africa who are poorer, on average, a paradox called "the Asian enigma" which …

adverse social context for women. It is seen as the cause of lower social and economic achievement for mothers and their … children, and as the potential determinant of inter-generational poverty traps. However, the question of whether pregnancy … opportunities of the young mothers. Actually, women who gave birth during their adolescence have on average 0.34 more years of …

and pay more government taxes. Mother’s program exposure, rather than father’s, leads to education benefits that are …

-age children who were exposed to the program obtained significantly higher levels of education than their peers who were residing … standards, had more educated spouses, and raised more educated children. The paper discusses various robustness checks and …