This article examines the effects of fostering on children's labour supply and schooling in host families in Niger. The … three outcomes for children (school attendance, hours of market work and hours of domestic work) and a treatment variable … (fostering). The results show that foster children are more likely to attend school and to have longer hours of domestic work …

Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

This paper analyzes how culture affects the engagement of parents in child-rearing activities, and time allocations of …