finds that children born into consanguineous marriages have lower test scores, lower height-for-age, and a higher likelihood … maternal grandparent mortality as instruments for consanguineous marriage of parents …

stimulation to boost child development, particularly for children ages 0-3 years. The paper reviews the rationale for linking both …

guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading. Three years after the end … of the intervention, the receptive vocabulary and the socio-emotional development of children of families participating … in either of the treatment arms improved (by 0.43 and 0.54 standard deviation, respectively) relative to children of …

Household expenditures for children-related goods may change when one of the parent migrates and do so differently … migration is accounted for using a set of instrumental variables derived from the model. Results show that when children are … of budget devoted to children remains unaffected because mothers compensate by giving up their own private consumption …

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 …

that either directly support the education of children with disabled parents and/or have policies that support disabled …This paper examines the effect of parental disability on school enrollment and educational performance for children in … the 2006 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey. Results from instrumental-variables regressions indicate that children …

Substantial work has demonstrated that early nutrition and home environments, including the degree to which children … receive cognitive stimulation and emotional support from parents, play a profound role in influencing early childhood … children in the preschool years living in low-income countries. Using panel data on parenting, nutrition status, and early …

sectors of the economy, consequently leading to a reduction in the number of employment opportunities in Africa. Using geodata … causal impact of electricity shortages on employment, and the mechanisms driving the impact. Results from the paper reveal … that electricity shortages exert a substantial negative impact on employment rates in Africa. The evidence also shows three …

-term frictional unemployment across countries. The resulting evidence indicates that there is a robust, negative partial correlation … between national unemployment rates and the incidence of the digital economy, proxied by the share of the adult population … incidence of informal employment appears to be key for removing a positive omitted- variable bias in the estimate of the partial …