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 …

large-scale physical destruction on the educational attainment, health status and labor market outcomes of German children … school-age during WWII. First, these children had 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood, with those in the … most hard-hit cities completing 1.2 fewer years. Second, these children were about half inches (one centimeter) shorter and …

children has a U -shaped effect on parents' involvement in social networks, with substantial differences between fathers and … on the father's involvement in social networks. The age gap between children has a positive effect on both parents …This paper analyzes the effect of family composition, and in particular the number of children, the age gap between the …

likely that children who migrate face different challenges in attaining high school credentials depending upon their age at … immigration. This paper examines the education outcomes of a cohort of immigrants who arrived in Canada as children. The 2006 … Census is used and it is found that there is in fact a distinct change in the chances that children will hold a high …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children’s anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

children through the "caring preferences" of their parents or has treated them as household public goods [Bourguignon (1999 …Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the …); Blundell et al. (2005)]. This paper seeks to determine whether children of a certain age are decision-makers. We focus on the …

We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers …, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the …

the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs … significantly, disadvantaged American children living in much more challenging circumstances, and the role of public policy not as …

that are predicted by a higher number of children. The results are robust to controlling for age, education, income …In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The …