We investigate the long-term effects of households' exposure to violent conflict on children's educational attainment … educational attainment of children measured by grade point averages. Impaired non-cognitive rather than cognitive skills are … identified as channels through which exposure affects children's educational achievement. …

We investigate the long-term effects of households' exposure to violent conflict on children's educational attainment … educational attainment of children measured by grade point averages. Impaired non-cognitive rather than cognitive skills are … identified as channels through which exposure affects children's educational achievement …

children thereby reducing their future earnings, and perpetuating poverty and inequality. The paper discusses important … of paternal and maternal shocks on different cohort groups, roles of cognitive abilities of children and quality of …

-born children of immigrants were asked to take Woodcock-Johnson achievement test. In both rounds, prior to the administration of … tests, children of Hispanic origin were randomly assigned to take the tests either in Spanish or in English. Therefore, we … suggest that in reading tests, U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants perform better, when they are assigned to take the …

daycare vacancy rates, we estimate the causal effects of enrollment age in universal daycare on child development for children … younger than two years. We find modest effects of postponing daycare enrollment on early childhood outcomes. Children who … preschool. Children who enroll later are also more likely to have insufficient language proficiency at age five and thus need …

no evidence that earlier enrollment harms early child development, except for a temporary health shock. Children who … some positive effects of early enrollment. Children who enter daycare later are more likely to demonstrate inadequate …

stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in … later-born children. Taken together, these patterns are consistent with a reputation model of strategic parenting …