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 …

contribution that combines the estimation of sets of high-dimensional fixed effects and Gelbach's (2009) unambiguous decomposition …

We explore the link between parental selection and criminality of children in a new context. After the collapse of the … Berlin Wall in 1989, East Germany experienced a very large, but temporary, drop in birth rates mostly driven by economic … uncertainty. We exploit this natural experiment in a differences-in-differences setup to first estimate that the children from …

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by … economic uncertainty. Using various educational measures, we show that the children born during this nativity slump perform … observed personal characteristics. These children are also less likely to have grown up within stable family environment …