after the parents go out to work, and the educational performance of the left-behind children is positively affected, it is … impact of parents going out to work on the educational performance of left-behind children may come from the pressure of … parents' high educational expectations. When the father went out to work, the restraints on the left-behind children are …

parents' in that grandparents take less responsibility for children's academic performance than parents do and are less strict …This study investigates the effect of grandparental care on children's locus of control (LOC), which is an important … non-cognitive skill that affects children's future development. We use data from the China Family Panel Studies, which is …

school-going children. When children attend school, the potential time working mothers miss out with their children, is … smaller than when children do not yet attend school. At the same time, working might benefit children through, for example … children enter school.We find no negative relation between maternal working hours and child outcomes as is often found for pre …

. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … 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 …

Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …

, even though displacement episodes early in children's lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children's teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

how delivery and adverse birth outcomes affect families and the homes where children grow up. In this study, I use data …