employment and fertility among women, as well as long-run cognitive outcomes among children. A structural life-cycle model of … outcomes of children, via estimating a cognitive ability production function that corrects for the endogeneity of inputs. We …-education women. This leads to lower reading scores among children, primarily as a result of mothers shifting away from formal care …

June 2000 - Economic incentives have a powerful effect on the work behavior of women with children in Kenya. In … addition to increasing the future productivity of children, government subsidies of low-cost early childhood development … million children aged three to seven (roughly 20 percent of children in that age group) in Kenya in 1995. The number of child …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … more effective because we do not find any detrimental long-term effects for exposed children from higher socioeconomic … backgrounds. In contrast, exposed children from low socioeconomic backgrounds have significantly worse labor market outcomes as …