undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their …Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

programme increased school participation of 14 to 17 year old children quite substantially, by between 5 and 7 percentage points …, and had lower, but non-negligible effects on enrolment of younger children of between around 1.5 and 2.5 percentage points …. In terms of work, the effects are generally largest for younger children whose participation in domestic work decreased …

also predicts that the political support for regulation should increase if a rising skill premium induces parents to choose …

children are likely to earn a higher wage as young adults. This effect more than fully offsets the foregone earnings due to … set) and that parents are able to borrow (or internally fund) the investment in schooling. …

is too high when parents are not very altruistic or anticipate positive transfers from their children in the future …

, affects children’s school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. In our empirical specification we use household …

considerably reduced by a displacement effect whereby adult workers replace children in the export sector while children replace … labour to higher or lower adult and children wages depends on the strength of income and substitution effects. …