Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …

child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …

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

This paper builds upon Cunha's (2015) subjective rationality model in which parents have a subjective belief about the … impact of their investment on the early skill formation of their children. We propose that this subjective belief is …

impact of nudging parents on attendance and learning for school-age children; this is the first experiment looking at both … app to send messages to parents of preschool children. The intervention had no average treatment effect on attendance, but …-year-olds. However, more than a third of children enrolled in preschool programs have insufficient attendance, with absenteeism higher in …

. The experiment provided parents of preschool students with text messages to support their children's learning at home …. After 15 weeks of intervention, the cognitive skills of children whose parents received the text messages rose 0 …

We evaluate the effects of a 10-week intervention that randomly provided access to remote coaching to parents of … preschool children over the summer break in Peru. In response to learning losses during school closures induced by COVID-19 …, education coaches offered guidance and encouragement to parents in activities designed to accelerate the development of core …

Play during early childhood is key to stimulating children's physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development … the development of emotional and cognitive skills in children. The study also found a significant effect of 0.19 SD on the … Developmental Milestones Checklist for children of caregivers with the lowest level of parental investment at the baseline. Our …

This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters …’ schooling and marriage. We specify a dynamic discrete choice model in which parents face uncertainty about the quality of their … daughter’s future marriage offers. Parents’ choices are thus partially driven by their beliefs about the likelihood of …