This paper tries to investigate educational preferences of parents over their child's education using survey data from … examine the presence of gender bias in preference pattern of parents. Our results document that in addition to educational and … income status of parents' autonomy enjoyed by female in the family and dowry being exchanged at the time of parents' own …

, riboflavin, thiamin, and vitamins A, C, D, and E 100 of Kenyan school children (6-9 years) within a multivariate longitudinal …

, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous … findings that early childhood developmental program attendance at ages 0-6 raises the probability of school enrollment among …

, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous … findings that early childhood developmental program attendance at ages 0-6 raises the probability of school enrollment among …

In 2005, India witnessed a constitutional amendment to the Hindu Succession Act of 1956. It gave daughters equal … inheritance rights as sons. However, five states in India had earlier amended the same Act in favour of daughters. Using this … strategy to estimate the impact of reform on female education, labour force participation and their daughter’s educational …

India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 …

parents may improve children's school performance. One is that children spend more time studying following migrant parents … effect of return migrant parents on once-left-behind children's performance. This empirical strategy allows us to avoid the … endogeneity issue concerning the migration decision that may have contaminated previous studies. We find evidence that return …