have devastating effects not only on the individual but the entire household, including children. If a parental health … shock reduces investments in children, it may have long-lasting implications on the children's future socioeconomic status … with consequences on their adult health. Using a detailed longitudinal dataset of Danish children born in the period 1987 …

characteristics of children as well as parents. To estimate causal treatment effects, I use a simple logistic regression along with a …With the goal to shed more light on the effectiveness of parental time spent with their children, I estimate the causal … relationship between parental involvement and education outcomes of children. My research is the first which examines the effect of …

only for children around the median of the attendance rate baseline distribution (between deciles 4 and 6). The … intervention was ineffective for children with very high or very low pre-treatment absenteeism levels. Our results, although … encouraging, emphasize the limits of these types of interventions, especially for children in families where barriers to reduce …

The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and …

evidence, we find a positive effect of both parents education on their children's schooling achievements when focusing on … natural parents only. Step parents have no or a negative impact on children's education. In most cases, the endogeneity of … Seventies in Britain. This strategy identifies the effect of parental schooling only for parents with a lower taste for …

The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …