in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause …This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind … relational and psychological problems that may affect children's welfare in the long-term. The phenomenon of children left behind …

parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child … migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the … effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses …

1996 PNAD. With the adoption of some hypotheses about the links between generations of children, parents and grandparents … 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 …

migrate to the United States and leave their children behind. Then, after the parent(s) have achieved some degree of stability … separation during migration results in problems at school after re-unification. We find that children separated from parents … in the United States, the children follow. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, we examined the hypothesis that …

This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine … children who lost one parent during childhood, we find a series of striking patterns which show that the relationship is … largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in …

are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation … the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … suggest that policy efforts to keep separated parents geographically closer together for the sake of the children may, in fact …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identfication of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

incentives to encourage people to have more children. These policies seem only modestly effective in countering the impacts of …

that the influence of the socioeconomic background of parents differs strongly across nations, with the highest impact … language spoken at home. We conclude that educational policy should focus on integration of immigrant children in schools and …