In this paper, we provide evidence of whether child spacing affects the future success of children. As an exogenous …-born mothers, the reform also caused a decrease in educational attainment. Thus, this suggests that the effect of spacing children … closer has a negative impact on children's future outcomes. We provide additional evidence that this is likely due to the …

We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We …) and show how hiring labor from outside the household and transfers to the household might induce a reduction in children … the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …

Sweden. We use administrative data on parents' leave uptake and children's educational outcomes in a difference …We study how fathers' time impacts children's human capital using the introduction of earmarked paternity leave in … human capital by 30 percent. We give suggestive evidence that these findings are explained by asymmetric impacts on parents …