Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in … children's non-cognitive outcomes and parental well-being. To capture heterogeneous effects on different dimensions of children … panel data set, we analyze age-specific effects for families with children below the age of 11. Our preliminary results …

The consequences of early motherhood for the offspring are severely understudied, especially in low- and middle-income … phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age …

It has been shown that a person's relative income - compared to a reference group - has a negative impact on self … relative income is low. In this paper we study this hypothesis by estimating the effect of relative income on job mobility … characteristics. Our findings suggest that workers compare their own income to that of their neighbors, and low relative income is …

I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … children lowers a child's probability of holding a university degree by more than 5 percentage points. I do not find that …

exogenous instruments of fertility. The results show strong impact of children on preventing old parents from strenuous works at … senior age, e.g. having one more child significantly reduces post-retirement aged rural parents' probability of working by 12 ….8 percentage points. Such impact is especially strong among the more vulnerable elder parents with worse health and little pension …

generation. However, the results are driven by individuals whose both parents were expellees and by the higher end of the …

. The objective of this paper is highlighting the importance of quality of education to explain the wide income disparities … school students' performance in capital and small towns. For this purpose, it will be used the Brazilian Educational Search …, will be structured into 2 levels, respectively: students, and school. The results suggest, after socioeconomic control, the …

relating to income on a national level. Polish GDP per capita (in PPP terms) increased from 49% of European Union average in … does not spread out proportionally on all regions and income convergence is not observed. Instead, the relatively fastest … purpose of the research is to analyze the relationship between the local convergence of income and educational achievements on …

accounting gains lower income groups would suffer welfare losses and higher income groups enjoy welfare gains through indirect …