We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … and exogenous variation in children's astrological characteristics and apply instrumental variables methods. We find a …

phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age …

early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel …

” by the migrants. Left-behind households’ expenditure on children’s education and the gendered distribution of these …This paper analyses the effect of migration of men from rural areas in Pakistan on children in households “left behind … children’s education. Second, it is tested if migration of men from households reduces gender inequality in households …

The unequal treatment of children is not gender neutral from the parent side. Our results show that women try to …

if the child gender directly affect the outcome variable other than changing the number of children, the exclusion … China's One Child Policy. Applying to the children's effects on parental migration decision, we find that the addition of … one girl in the family will result in a 13.7% increase in the probability that both parents in rural households migrate to …

This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children …

sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …