When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial … social security on education investments in children. In a difference-in-differences framework, a significant increase in the …

health and education, including: increased children's height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … helping children and youth build human capital through better health and education, which has led to positive returns in the …

In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while …

Conditional cash transfers are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children in … whether cohorts of children from poor households that benefited up to nine years from Familias en Acci?n, a conditional cash … average, participant children are 4 to 8 percentage points more likely than nonparticipant children to finish high school …

about children's schooling are more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in …

strong determinant of educational outcomes among the children in all the countries. Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, and Uganda … from mothers to children, and the effect is more pronounced among daughters than sons. The results highlight the need for …

paper provides evidence on economic mobility in post-reform India by focusing on the educational attainment of children. It … benefiting the most. Almost 70 percent of the variance in children's education can be accounted for by parental education and …

her child's health. Mothers exposed to conflict during their childhood have more children and live in less wealthy … households, likely reducing their ability to invest during their children?s critical period of physical development. The finding … points to a potential trade-off between the quantity and quality of children. The paper uses information on monthly conflict …