calibrated life-cycle models assuming a smoothing of per capita consumption for parents with children in the household … significantly within four years after a child moves out of a household. Per capita consumption of parents is approximately leveled … up to that of childless peers after all children are gone. We conclude with respect to the adequacy of saving rates that …

The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we …

climb the job ladder with focus on the effect of children. We attempt to disentangle whether children directly affect … promotions, or whether the effect of children is correlated with effort. We find that the probability to progress on the career … ladder is decreased for women through children, but not for men. These effects are particularly strong at the lower and …

children in Germany. We exploit the introduction of birthright citizenship for newborn children in Germany starting on the 1st … of January, 2000, to obtain difference-in-differences estimates for the effect of citizenship on the children s … children to enter the middle school track rather than the lower one. This suggests that growing up with the citizenship of the …

We exploit a policy change in Sweden to estimate the effect of copayments on the demand for children's and adolescents … represent a substitution away from inpatient care. The size of the response differs by health and income but not by educational …

As the number of young children in daycare increases, people start to worry about the effect of early non-parental care … term development. Based on the German national health survey for children, we study the impact of daycare in pre …-kindergarten-age on weight problems and gross motor skills of children aged five to nine. This dataset has the advantage to provide …