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 …

study is child income based on income of parents. Inequality in child income 1990, 1996 and 2002 is studied by decomposing …This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three …-periods 1990-1996 and 1996-2002. For example, while in the Stockholm region 7 percent of inequality in child income in 1990 was due …

the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …

the main driving forces of income inequality in Georgia, as it emerges from the analysis of the first representative … money income in Georgia is comparable to highest inequality countries of Latin America (Gini equals 0.6). However, given the … in the Georgian context and explores the relationship between income and consumption in the Georgian context. Using …

Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on financial and real wealth and household … income, is used as an instrument for attained education in a standard log earnings equation. I find that, in line with the …