Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied … the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how … parental migration affects children's non-cognitive development. We use longitudinal data of children in rural China and adopt …

estimates rule out large effects for children whose parents have a strong preference for sending them to early child care. …While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of …

rule out large effects for children whose parents have a strong preference for sending them to early child care. …While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of …

their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

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 … changes to the family's budget constraint on parents' working hours. Labor supply is theoretically expected to increase for …

children's outcomes. Parents' time spent on childcare is negatively related to the amount of time spent on paid work … full-time employed parents. Both parents' time spent on childcare is explicitly taken into account as well as childcare … crucial for parents' time use decisions but availability of paternal childcare does not directly affect the mother's childcare …

children from low socioeconomic background are more likely to suffer from ‘objectively measured’ health problems - except for … obesity. There is some evidence, however, that high income children are better able to cope with the adverse consequences of …

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 …

sind die Ursache für diese Verschlechterung der Englischkenntnisse der Kinder. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass Eltern ihre … Kinder an einer Vorschule anmelden, sinkt. Die Zeit, welche Kinder in der Vorschulde verbringen, wird durch die Zeit, die die … Eltern zu Hause mit den Kindern verbringt substituiert. Die Eltern reduzieren auch die Zeit für Freizeit und soziale Kontakte …

, 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 …