on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … uncorrelated with the ones driving location choice of families given the migration patterns in Mexico. However, the positive … autonomy effect is weaker and non-existent for older children and for girls suggesting that gender-directed conditional cash …

on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … uncorrelated with the ones driving location choice of families given the migration patterns in Mexico. However, the positive … autonomy effect is weaker and non-existent for older children and for girls suggesting that gender-directed conditional cash …

The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential … negative impact of the mother's absence from home on child outcomes. Recent data show that mother's time spent with children … has declined in the last decade, while the indicators of children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes have worsened. The …

two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies - augmented with a …

potential mechanisms we find that earlier born children receive less quality time from their mothers than later born children … effects; earlier born children stay behind in their human capital development from early childhood to adolescence. Turning to …. In addition, they are breastfed shorter. The estimated birth order effects are largest for children in their teens …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. -- teenage motherhood … ; education ; fertility ; children ; instrumental variables ; compulsory schooling laws …

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to …

.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census … enumerators and linking these children across population censuses, we first document large gaps in educational attainment and …