In this article we analyse the impact of spousal preference expectations on mothers' willingness to invest in children …’s food/nutrition and health/medical expenses. We use a survey conducted in Karnataka, South India, where women with children … elicitation is impossible, female investments in children reduce significantly. We argue that in the absence of information …

This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill … accumulation, permanently lowering children's skill levels. To the extent that making up for cognitive skill losses during …

This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill … accumulation, permanently lowering children's skill levels. To the extent that making up for cognitive skill losses during …