The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we …

3 discusses whether early performance-based tracking of children into different school types impede migrant integration …

experiences. As children are vulnerable to early life experi- ences, whether they have a good or bad start has long … of longitudinal data following children for a long time. More recently, studies focusing on developing countries are … beginning to emerge with the maturity of some longitudinal datasets tracking children, even if it remains much to discover in …

quality of time parents spend with their children, parenting style, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child … noncognitive skills, as well as crystallized, fluid, and overall IQ that represent cognitive skills. We measure parental SES by the … mother's and father's average years of education and household income. Our results show that children from families with …