We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes … program is associated with better educational outcomes of their children. Father's participation in the NREGS, on the other … hand, has a negative effect on children's education. Further, the estimated impact of mother's program participation is …

corrected for interalia constraints on time. Time needed to care for children (and other dependants) is a constraint on … available time. The capability approach will seek to compute the cost of children (and other special needs) by identifying moral …

of this is due to observed family heterogeneity. The estimated causal effect is non-significantly negative for all …

microcredit, plays a role in children’s food security, measured by anthropometric nutritional Z-scores. Access to microcredit is …

countries. The number of infant deaths is still quite high, nutrition of children and women continues to be problematic, and …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine whether parent's risk attitudes relate to … children's secondary school track choice in Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our … children's enrollment in upper secondary school. …

migration and within-family variation. We find evidence of a positive impact of parents' years since migration on children … of each parent's years since migration on their children's school achievements. We exploit local variation in years since … to be more important for math. The effects vary by gender, and family-specific effects influence girls' and boys …

We are the first to investigate longer-term effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health. We rely … on a difference-in-differences strategy while exploiting Danish register-based panel data for children born in 1990 …-1999. We study effects of treatment initiated between ages five and ten and document that treated children benefit in terms of …

database together with self-collected survey data. Using family fixed effects models we find significant positive birth order … effects; earlier born children stay behind in their human capital development from early childhood to adolescence. Turning to … potential mechanisms we find that earlier born children receive less quality time from their mothers than later born children …