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 …

” 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 …

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

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 …

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

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

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