Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in … children thereby reducing their future earnings, and perpetuating poverty and inequality. The paper discusses important … of paternal and maternal shocks on different cohort groups, roles of cognitive abilities of children and quality of …

sources: first, the inheritance of innate abilities and social network of family from parents by children; and second, capital … occupations such as services and sales. The findings highlight the fact that children of parents employed in high-paying and …Historically, the issue of intergenerational evolution of income, wealth, and socioeconomic status has been the subject …

parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses’ siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children’s present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

. Data from 135 couples and their children show that the father's risk aversion is negatively associated with school … evidence that points to a preference for current income generated by the employment of boys in high-value cash crop production …

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 …