traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility-as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction …

This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …

that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …

parental unemployment on children's human capital should be considered by policymakers, as should educational interventions to …

smoke. Men are the major income earners in most Chinese families and thus bear much of the financial burden in preparation … for children’s marriage. This paper investigates how a demographic factor - a large number of surplus men in the marriage … ratios among children and intense smoking among fathers. Considering worsening sex ratios and highly competitive marriage …

In many societies, parents prefer sons over daughters, but the well-being effects of child gender, especially in later … paper evaluates the impacts of having daughters on older parents' subjective well-being (SWB) in China, which has a rapidly … aging population and the traditional preference for sons. Studying the cohort of parents whose child gender is as good as …

Parents make important choices for their children in many areas of life, yet the empirical literature on this topic is … scarce. We study parents’ competitiveness choices for their children by combining two large-scale artefactual field … about their children’s competitiveness preferences. Third, parents’ choices predict children's later-in-life educational …

sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late …

, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …