Recent policy debates on closing the education gender gap in developing countries have
focused on cash transfers, but standard models of intrahousehold allocation imply that …

This article estimates the effect of the oldest sister's education on child human capital
development. In many developing countries, the oldest sisters share significant childcare …

This study examines the impact of mandatory maternal education on child health in Turkey,
where a non‐trivial fraction of families restricted their daughters' schooling due to social and …

Women's schooling is thought to have an important positive impact on children's health and
nutrition in developing countries. A special adult sister sample from Nicaragua is used to …

This dissertation encompasses three chapters that study the extent to which natural
disasters and social assistance programs affect children's schooling, child labor, and …

Children of educated mothers fare better on a variety of educational outcomes. However,
little research has been done on the effects of human capital investments undertaken by …

The gender gap in schooling is puzzling given that the expected returns to an individual for
increased schooling—as measured by proportional wage increments—does not differ by …

Socioeconomic inequalities in health and well-being are large, beginning early in childhood
and accumulating over the life course, but they also vary widely across rich, developed …

Studies on the intergenerational transmission of human capital usually assume a one-way
spillover from parents to children. However, children may also affect their parents' human …

We use nationally representative data from India on test scores in an instrumental variable
framework to identify the effects of early age marriages of girls on the human capital of their …