a cohort of English teenagers in compulsory education. Our results support a situation in which parents 'tax' their … children's earnings, withdrawing financial support as the child increases his working hours. This strategy forces the child to …

This paper examines whether children are better off if their parents have stronger social networks. Using data on high …-school friendships of parents, we analyze whether the number and characteristics of friends affect the labor-market outcomes of children … persistency and network measurement error. Only when children enter the labor market, we find that friends of parents have a …

mothers and fathers, particularly fathers, spend more time with their children, and the variety of activities parents engage …-old children in Turkey. As the source of exogenous variation in maternal schooling, we use mothers' exposure to the 1997 education … mothers' educational attainment and a rise in children's readiness to learn. Our finding is novel because it measures …

supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is children aged 7-18 in households in which both parents usually coreside and … affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor … is not affected. We find no evidence that paternal temporary absence influences his children in terms of school …

-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon - nor are social scientists. The paper discusses its …

We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little … attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities … countries (France, Italy and Germany) on the link between time allocation by parents and time allocation by youngsters …

, 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 …

. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …

parents' educational attainment with their offspring's. Daughters exhibit more intergenerational persistence than sons. We … show that the education reform that increased compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years, exposed children born after 1986 to 3 …