This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A …

Data on educational access show gender parity of pupils attending primary and secondary schools in transition countries …. The first aim of this analysis is to examine whether the gender balance in educational access translates also into gender … on gender equality in achievement across different sources: the Trends in International Maths and Science Study (TIMSS …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes … program is associated with better educational outcomes of their children. Father's participation in the NREGS, on the other … hand, has a negative effect on children's education. Further, the estimated impact of mother's program participation is …

constraints causing the large gender gap in Turkish education and the covariates related to lower overall educational levels may …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes …. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this selection problem by looking within the family to exploit variation in …

developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio …) controlling for various child and family characteristics. The findings indicate that, among boys, obesity is a significant risk … the correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that the correlation …

bias). We work with three instruments: number of schools by the time parents were children; family factor changes across …We study the impacts of family income and parental education on the probability of children’s schooling delay using the … 1996 PNAD. With the adoption of some hypotheses about the links between generations of children, parents and grandparents …

parents may compensate or reinforce children?s endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … own consumption and children?s wellbeing, estimation is complicated by endowment heterogeneity and by the fact that … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents? knowledge of their children?s endowments and about the technology used to …

We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …

We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …