This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational …

children than their parents. Therefore, ignoring the effects of sanctions on future generations significantly understates their … on children's education by exploiting the United Nations sanctions imposed on Iran in 2006. Using the variation in the … sanctions decreased children's total years of schooling by 0.1 years and the probability of attending college by 4.8 percentage …

This study investigates the role of family structure on cognitive outcomes of children. Using the rich panel data … changes in family structure. We find that children who stay-in or move-to non-intact families have lower reading scores than … effect on children's math performance, analysis by gender reveals that girls' performance appears to be more affected than …

, this pa- per aims to analyze the gender gap in educational outcomes from different methods of evaluation and the gender gap … in college applications. The results contribute to the discussion of the gender gap in performance in education … suggesting that evaluation systems might have gender biased impacts on students and the under- representation of females in top …

Evidence on a causal link between family size and children’s education, as in the tradeoff suggested by Gary S. Becker … provincial OCP regulations and studying exclusively post-compulsory schooling outcomes of children that are subject to parental …

result taller and heavier parents should have more sons relative to daughters. Using two British cohort studies, evidence was … parents' height and weight using one of the datasets. No evidence of any such relationship is found. …

The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children …