The authors use panel data for Mexico for 1997 to 1999 to test several assumptions regarding the impact of a … the conditional cash transfer program in Mexico PROGRESA (OPORTUNIDADES) they investigate the interaction between child … labor and indigenous households. While indigenous children had a greater probability of working in 1997, this probability is …

Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature … parents and the type of relationship that links the children to their "adoptive" families. The results of the analysis suggest …, 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 …

its application to samples of nuclear households, and employs an index of child gender based on the number of children in …

answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they may …

The impact of macroeconomic crises on parents' investments in the human capital of their children is a widely contested … employment decisions made by urban school-age children. He arrives at two basic findings: First, the crisis had no effect on the … attendance rates of school-age children. But the share of children who were both employed and in school fell significantly during …

This paper uses the OECD's Program for International Student Assessment student-level achievement database for Mexico …

The authors investigate the impact of international migration on child health outcomes in rural Mexico using a … to the United States in order to correct for the possible endogeneity of migrant status. They find that children in … for children in migrant households. These results provide a broader and more nuanced view of the health consequences of …

applied to evaluate the effects on children's health opportunities of Mexico's Oportunidades program, one of the largest …This paper proposes a methodology to evaluate social projects from the perspective of children's opportunities on the … opportunities for children from indigenous backgrounds are substantial and are situated in crucial parts of the distribution …