Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in … children thereby reducing their future earnings, and perpetuating poverty and inequality. The paper discusses important … of paternal and maternal shocks on different cohort groups, roles of cognitive abilities of children and quality of …

targeting parents of children aged six to 24 months in a poor, rural district of Rwanda. The programme engaged parents through … baseline, children's communication, problem-solving, and personal social skills improved in treated groups. After almost three … resulted in increases in maternal time investments in both the short and the medium term, as well as improvements in parents …

needed to provide core inputs for children's health and education. However, maternal employment comes at the cost of time … spent with children, which is also a critical input into children's development. The net impact is therefore theoretically … children's health and education in Indonesia. We mobilize several data sources to construct a dataset of more than 32 …

children's risk of malaria infection. For identification, we rely on exogenous variation in educational attainment generated by … prophylaxis during pregnancy by between 3.7 and 14.5 percentage points, and their children's probability of sleeping under an … insecticide-treated bed net (ITN) by between 1.8 and 3.0 percentage points. Results for both women's use of ITN and children …

. Data from 135 couples and their children show that the father's risk aversion is negatively associated with school …

parental time investments in early childhood among low-income parents. We designed and screened a video that provided …, we added a positive feedback message to parents about their accomplishments during their participation in an earlier …

proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I …

people move out of as into metropolitan cities, and they mostly move to mid-sized towns. I estimate the determinants of out-migrants …' destination choice, accounting for differences in earnings, living costs, and amenities, and I test whether the migrants gain … economically by accepting lower wages but enjoying lower living costs. The findings suggest that the destination choice of out-migrants …