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 …

. If parents have no claim on their children’s income, then the private benefit from producing a child may be smaller … ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents to children. … need for government intervention are analysed. The friction which is investigated is related to the ownership of 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 …

-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning; children born in auspicious years are more likely to have …

The importance parents give to time spent with their children for their future behavioural and cognitive development … deeply affected the patterns of time allocation of both working and non-working parents in all developed countries in the …

A bill to provide for free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years. …

In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise … employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children … non-working parents in all developed countries. We compare the two waves of the Italian Time Use dataset (1988 and 2002 …

From genes to bequests, parents have important influences on the income, health and general living standards of their … children as adults. The purpose of this paper is to review how parents affect the life chances of their children, with a …

-employed (those whose parents were not self-employed) are more satisfied overall than are the second-generation self-employed. We … their parents, as well as parental transfers which loosen the self-employment participation constraint. This result is found …