be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special … the effect of maternal age and single parenthood on children's disability status and school progress. Our results suggest … that there is little association between maternal age at birth and children's disabilities. But the children of teen …

be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special … the effect of maternal age and single parenthood on children's disability status and school progress. Our results suggest … that there is little association between maternal age at birth and children's disabilities. But the children of teen …

its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children's education is negatively … associated with the number of children in the family. Do these observations imply a causal relationship between the number of … children and the average education level (the quantity-quality trade-off)? A clear answer to this question will help both …

fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited … impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …

instrument fertility will under-estimate impacts of fertility on parental investments and women's labour supply. This is …

To promote SDG Goal 4 and "education for all", this study investigates children’s basic reading skills in 11 low … (MICS). Research specifically examining children’s reading skills and disparities across socioeconomic groups in African … disparities across diverse social backgrounds, including children with disabilities. Our study provides new evidence on the …