amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by … maternal education, but only when both the educational gradient of single motherhood and the child poverty gap by single …

assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …

This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children … school years) in four developing countries: Peru, Ethiopia, India, and Vietnam. Intercontinental evidence on the timing …

This paper investigates the relationship between parental health shocks and children's engagement in education and … health on children's educational and labour market outcomes is limited, especially in developing countries. We use child … maternal illness substantially decreases chances of being enrolled in school for children between 10 and 23 years old and, at …