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 …

children. We estimate differences in the time that immigrant and Canadian-born parents allocate to child-care activities … care-time parents provide for their children, we do find significant differences - by immigrant status - in time … activities by immigrant parents on their Canadian-born children. …

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. …

Parental job loss is a large, negative shock to the household that can affect children in both the short- and long …-run. Little is known, however, about how the long-run impacts of job loss on children vary with the child's age at the time of … displacement. This paper provides the first empirical evidence of the long-run effects of parental unemployment on children exposed …