and children, child human capital, and savings. Estimating how exogenous changes in fertility that are uncorrelated with …

the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows …-headship on children's outcomes, I use a two-stage least squares strategy that controls for the possible endogeneity of both types … of female-headship. Results indicate that children residing in households headed by married women have stronger schooling …

the inter-generational effects on the health and schooling of the woman’s children. Within two decades many of these … indicators of the welfare of women and their children improve significantly in conjunction with the program-induced decline in …

This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to … determine marital status of women and number of children ever born are estimated considering factors that affect women …'s bargaining powers inside the marriage. Tentative estimates of structural interdependence between these variables and children …

Recent research reveals a negative impact of divorce on children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in …

Württemberg (southern Germany) from the mid-sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Using high-quality registers of births …