. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

inequality concerns over children's final outcomes. Because parents perceive investment to be 12 percent more productive for the … developing world. I study the role played by parents' educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … develop new theory-driven survey measures based on hypothetical scenarios that allow me to separately identify parents …

This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters …' schooling and marriage. We specify a dynamic discrete choice model in which parents face uncertainty about the quality of their … daughter's future marriage offers. Parents' choices are thus partially driven by their beliefs about the likelihood of …

impact of the COVID pandemic on the mental health of school-age children in England. We focus on how the significant pandemic … induced disruptions to parental employment affected children and through what mechanisms, using unique nationally … significant and negative impact on children's mental health of around 9% of a standard deviation equivalent to around 30% of the …

In this paper, we analyze the determinants of the living arrangements of elderly parents and their children (whether … elderly parents live with their children, and if so, with which child) in Japan using micro data from a household survey. We … find that the proportion of elderly parents living with their eldest sons is much higher than that of elderly parents …

naturalized children of guest workers, ethnic Germans, EU and third country immigrants. In line with previous research, I find … less adversely affected by low parental education than are the children of native Germans. …