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35 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17288
Fetal Pollution Exposure, Cognitive Ability, and Gender-Specific Parental Investment
Xin Zhang, Yixuan Wang, Xingyi Hu, Xi Chen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17249
Intergenerational Effects of Compulsory Schooling Reform on Early Childhood Development in a Middle-Income Country
Yusuf Emre Akgündüz, Pelin Akyol, Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Murat Demirci, Murat Güray Kirdar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16977
The Parental Wage Gap and the Development of Socio-Emotional Skills in Children
Paul Hufe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16969
Integrating Minorities in the Classroom: The Role of Students, Parents, and Teachers
Alexandra de Gendre, Krzysztof Karbownik, Nicolás Salamanca, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16953
Birth Order in the Very Long-Run: Estimating Firstborn Premiums between 1850 and 1940
Angela Cools, Jared Grooms, Krzysztof Karbownik, Siobhan O'Keefe, Joseph Price, Anthony Wray
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16858
The Consequences of Miscarriage on Parental Investments
Aline Bütikofer, Deirdre Coy, Orla Doyle, Rita Ginja
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16442
High-Quality Early-Childhood Education at Scale: Evidence from a Multisite Randomized Trial
William Dougan, Jorge Luis García, Illia Polovnikov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16193
Entitled to Property: How Breaking the Gender Barrier Improves Child Health in India
Md Shahadath Hossain, Plamen Nikolov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15624
Spillover Effects of Immigration Policies on Children's Human Capital
Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Bernhard Schmidpeter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15596
Lowering Barriers to Remote Education: Experimental Impacts on Parental Responses and Learning
Emily A. Beam, Priya Mukherjee, Laia Navarro-Sola
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15593
Estimating Inter-Generational Returns to Medical Care: New Evidence from At­-Risk Newborns
Damian Clarke, Nicolás Lillo Bustos, Kathya Tapia-­Schythe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15421
Effects of Extending Paid Parental Leave on Children's Socio-Emotional Skills and Well-Being in Adolescence
Mikkel Aagaard Houmark, Cecilie Marie Løchte Jørgensen, Ida Lykke Kristiansen, Miriam Gensowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14786
Improving Women's Mental Health during a Pandemic
Michael Vlassopoulos, Abu Siddique, Tabassum Rahman, Debayan Pakrashi, Asadul Islam, Firoz Ahmed
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16(2), 422-55.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14663
Parental Responses to Children's Achievement Test Results
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Tiffany Ho, Nicolás Salamanca
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14498
Entitled to Property: Inheritance Laws, Female Bargaining Power, and Child Health in India
Md Shahadath Hossain, Plamen Nikolov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14192
Enhancing Human Capital at Scale
Francesco Agostinelli, Ciro Avitabile, Matteo Bobba
This version: September 2022.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13938
On the Mechanisms of Ability Peer Effects
Alexandra de Gendre, Nicolás Salamanca
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13485
Missing a Nurse Visit
Jonas Cuzulan Hirani, Hans Henrik Sievertsen, Miriam Wüst
published online as: 'Beyond Treatment Exposure: The Impact of the Timing of Early Interventions on Child and Maternal Health' in: Journal of Human Resources, May 9, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13079
Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills. Does Income Compensate?
Cheti Nicoletti, Kjell G. Salvanes, Emma Tominey
accepted manuscript: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13065
Parents' Responses to Teacher Qualifications
Simon Chang, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nicolás Salamanca
publisehd in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 419 - 446
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12629
A Bit of Salt, a Trace of Life: Gender Norms and the Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children
Zichen Deng, Maarten Lindeboom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12375
Sibling Differences in Educational Polygenic Scores: How Do Parents React?
Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11878
The Twin Instrument: Fertility and Human Capital Investment
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 3090-3139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11742
Twin Birth and Maternal Condition
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (5), 853-864
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11607
Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Characteristics in Rural China
Jessica Leight, Elaine M. Liu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11336
Parental Beliefs about Returns to Child Health Investments
Pietro Biroli, Teodora Boneva, Akash Raja, Christopher Rauh
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 33 - 57
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10405
The Twin Instrument
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke
substantially revised version published as 'Twin Birth and Maternal Condition' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (5), 853 - 864 / published as 'The Twin Instrument: Fertility and Human Capital Investment' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 3090 - 3139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10271
On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: New Evidence on Abortion, Fertility, and Parental Investments
S Anukriti, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Hiu Tam
published as 'On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: Fertility, Parental Investments and Mortality' in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (651), 1 - 36
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9686
Parenting Style as an Investment in Human Development
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nicolás Salamanca, Anna Zhu
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32, 1315 - 1352
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9172
Healthy(?), Wealthy, and Wise: Birth Order and Adult Health
Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 27 - 45
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8487
Locus of Control and Its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation
Warn N. Lekfuangfu, Francesca Cornaglia, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Nele Warrinnier
published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128(608), 298-329
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6755
Explaining the Birth Order Effect: The Role of Prenatal and Early Childhood Investments
Jee-Yeon K. Lehmann, Ana Nuevo-Chiquero, Marian Vidal-Fernandez
published as 'The Early Origins of Birth Order Differences in Children's Outcomes and Parental Behavior' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53, 123 - 156
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5153
Intra-household Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Cognitive Ability Gaps?
Paul Frijters, David W. Johnston, Manisha Shah, Michael A. Shields
published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (6), 2187-2208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4431
Substitution Effects in Parental Investments
Loren Brandt, Aloysius Siow, Jackie Wang
Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 28(2), 423-462 [Winner of Kuznet's Price 2015]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 857
An Economic Model of Child Custody
Marco Francesconi, Abhinay Muthoo
revised version published as 'Control Rights in Complex Partnerships' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9(3), 551-589
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