attendance, being on track in school (based on age), and test scores. Our preliminary findings are: 1) the children of households …; and 2) the children of households that have access to electricity significantly perform better than children from …

male workers in Brazil and Mexico. Our analysis takes into account demographic, educational, and economic variations within … each country over time, using Demographic Censuses microdata from Brazil and Mexico. Results suggest that demographic and … countries. Moreover, in Brazil and Mexico, these effects are observed throughout the income distribution, contrary to what is …

The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential … negative impact of the mother's absence from home on child outcomes. Recent data show that mother's time spent with children … has declined in the last decade, while the indicators of children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes have worsened. The …

their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …

. The hypothesis that parents of larger families spend on average less time with their children is also tested and shows the …

. The hypothesis that parents of larger families spend on average less time with their children is also tested and shows the …