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. …

The incidence of adiposity in the early years of life has outgrown the prevalence rate in older children and … parental unemployment on children's weight before, during and after a recession. Child growth charts are used to quantify … children according to overweight for BMI, weight for age, and weight for height measures. For BMI, the probability of a child …

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. …