compulsory schooling from five to eight years, on the developmental outcomes of children aged 36 to 59 months. We draw upon data … increase in maternal educational attainment and corresponding enhancements in children's readiness to learn. Exploring the … underlying mechanisms, we find a notable expansion in the number and variety of activities parents, especially fathers, engage in …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with … variables on the relationship between children and parents, family size, and the parents’ socioeconomic background. …

This paper explores the immediate effects of a father's U.S. migration on his children's schooling and work outcomes in … Mexico. To get around the endogeneity of paternal migration, I use individual fixed effects and IV estimation where the …. Overall, the estimates suggest that children reduce study hours and increase work hours in response to a father's U …

, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating … benefits women because of the public good nature of children. Able to realize Pareto improvements, marriage as an institution …

We develop a theoretical model of mating behavior and parental investment in children under asymmetry in kin …

The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in …