migration on the welfare of left-behind children in the Philippines so that policies can be devised to support them. This study …The Philippine government has focused most of its migration policy initiatives to encouraging international labour … migration and protecting the rights of Filipino migrant workers. However, government interventions and aids to left …

resources for schooling from early years through to adolescence. Recent research has looked at how parents respond to children …Many countries around the world are making substantial and increasing public investments in children by providing … finds that parents reduce their own efforts as schooling improves, dampening the efficiency of government expenditure …

The strong link between parental socioeconomic status (SES) and children's success in school is well established … that behavioural problems in children are associated with lower school grades independent of parenting style. These … underpin the influence of parental SES on children's school achievement. …

When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … parents who used to spend time taking care of their children, but to decrease for fulltime working parents because of an … Netherlands, where children start school (kindergarten) for approximately 20 hours a week in the month that they turn 4. Using …