prevalence of contagious disease might evolve toward growth-inhibiting social institutions and how small initial differences can …

spouse, disability, and a move to a nursing home, may affect the mental health status of the individual. For example, the … behaviour, health status, and major life events, over time. To deal with endogenous aspects of these events we apply fixed … effects estimation methods. We find some strikingly large effects of certain events on the occurrence of depression. We show …

parents to children; (2) positive assortative mating of parents, which tends to reinforce the impact of parents on the child …

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

This paper is based on the idea that the effort exerted by children, parents and schools affects the outcome of the … estimation of the education production function. Our results support this, and indicate which factors affect examination results …

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