developing world. I study the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … the production function, they invest more in higher-achieving children. Resources are important, as constrained parents … mitigate the identification problem posed by observational data, I design a lab-in-the-field experiment with poor parents in …

regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … household behavior have failed to account for the differential behavior of parents with respect to skill formation of their … children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education …

-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

children can amplify existing inequalities across generations. Third, inequality can exist even within families, and the …

children's health and cognitive outcomes, and explores whether shocks at certain periods matter more than others. The paper … variation in children's exposure to a negative shock at different periods early in life. It is shown that children exposed to …, children affected by the floods in the first trimester of pregnancy score lower on cognitive tests. Potential mechanisms are …

of parental income, and that children appear to compare their actual income situation with the aspiration level acquired …