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connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children’s choices of STEM fields …
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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 …
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their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …
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In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental … income evaluation data for such estimations, we conduct a refined version of the underlying survey, focusing on young women … with children in Germany. Our study confirms that the monetary cost of children is substantial and increases with parental …
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We examine the differential effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in … groups. In a difference-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for … individuals without children, accounting for unrelated trends as well as potential survey mode and context effects. We find that …
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externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …
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This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children’s mental health. Combining several nationwide … children …
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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 …
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We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on fragile families’ time use with their children. Courses …, we find attending the course increased families’ awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, the …
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