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 …

We study the link between parental selection and children criminality in a new context. After the fall of the Berlin … Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this … natural experim ent to estimate that the children from these (smaller) cohorts are 40 percent more likely to commit crimes. We …