Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use … years of schooling. We also estimate bounds on the effect of education on arranged marriage when exclusion restrictions are … violated locally (the lower bound is six to seven percentage points). The impact of education is strong for women, but …

This paper measured the extent to which households in Madagascar adjust children's school attendance in order to cope … rigidities, explain the inability of households in Madagascar to keep their children in school during times of economic distress. …

children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children … Swedish compulsory schooling reform in the 1950s and 1960s, we address this question by studying the causal effect of children …

working and education. I look at the empirical relationship between working and educational expenditure budget shares for … Family Life Survey (MxFLS). The results indicate that working increases school expenditure shares for working children. In … particular, on average, girls engaged in paid work have total annual education expenditure shares that are 48.6% higher than …