the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … health that makes a difference as far as child schooling is concerned. Children whose mothers self-reported having poor … and depression symptoms. Moreover, we find that mothers’ health shocks have more negative consequences on younger children …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the …, leading to a de-stigmatization of sex. As contraception has become more effective there is less need for parents, churches and …

study is child income based on income of parents. Inequality in child income 1990, 1996 and 2002 is studied by decomposing …This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three …-periods 1990-1996 and 1996-2002. For example, while in the Stockholm region 7 percent of inequality in child income in 1990 was due …

of children aged between 7 and 14, we find strong aversion to lying at all ages. Lying is driven mainly by selfish … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others … at no monetary cost. Older children lie less than younger children and require more self-justification to lie. …

conclude that children conceived before first marriage increase the risk of marital disruption. Finally, the higher the parents …Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …

investment in children and is hence more valuable for parents adopting a high-investment strategy for their children. … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited … different functions among different groups. The poor and less educated are much more likely to rear children in cohabitating …

causal effect of having children on female labor supply using IVF treated women in Denmark. Because observed chances of IVF …

have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This …

This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and …

equivalent of the costs of the extra time stress is very large. While the departure of a child from the home reduces parents …