Multidimensional child poverty (MDCP) and well-being measures are increasingly
developed in the literature. Much more effort has gone to highlight the differences across …

A small but increasing body of literature finds that parents invest in their children unequally.
However, the evidence is contradictory, and providing convincing causal evidence of the …

This paper evaluates the existence of spillover effects of the “Más Familias en Acción”
program on eligible children who are not beneficiaries of the subsidy while their siblings are …

It is common for health and nutrition interventions to target specific household members and
for evaluations of their effects to focus exclusively on those members. However, if a targeted …

This study explores the effect of early-life rainfall shocks on the long-run performance of
children of different genders and possible mechanisms. Using data from a nationwide …

Market exchange involves many cognitive and non-cognitive processes—eg, search,
inference, prediction, negotiation. Much attention has been devoted to these issues both in …

The importance of noncognitive skills in determining long-term human capital and labor
market outcomes is widely acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how …

The importance of non-cognitive skills in determining long-term human capital and labor
market outcomes is widely acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how …

The overall impacts of early childhood programs depend on the indirect impacts that arise
due to intra-household reallocation of parental investments. Using historical administrative …

How do parents choose to allocate investments across children? Do they maximize the
returns to their investments (total household earnings), or equalize across their children …