Household Structure and Children's Educational Attainment: A Perspective on Coresidence with Grandparents

The Effect of Household Wealth on Educational Attainment Around the World: Demographic and Health Survey Evidence

We use household survey data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from 44 surveys (in 35 countries) to document different patterns in the enrollment and attainment of children from rich and poor households. We overcome the lack of income or expenditure data in the DHS by constructing a proxy for long-run wealth of the household from the asset information in the survey using the statist...

Obesity and Educational Attainment

This research estimates the influence of adolescent weight status on levels of educational attainment. Prior studies have found a causal role of obesity in other economic outcomes such as income. Given the crucial role of human capital investments for economic success, estimates of the causal influence of weight problems on education accumulation are provided. Models ignoring the potential endo...

Altruism , Household Coresidence and Women ’ s Health Investment in Rural

Altruism, Household Coresidence and Women's Health Investment in Rural Bangladesh

Educational Enrollment and Attainment in India: Household Wealth, Gender, Village, and State Effects

This paper uses the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data collected in 1992-93 to estimate the determinants of child (aged 6 to 14) enrollment and educational attainment of a recent cohort (aged 15 to 19) in India. The analysis produces five major results. First, using an index of assets as a proxy for household wealth shows enormous gaps between the enrollment and attainment of children fr...