welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent by parents looking after their children and … working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, the study focuses on mono-nuclear families with children under … mothers' alcohol consumption. We interpret these findings as evidence of a negative impact of fathers' alcohol consumption on …

at increasing working hours amongst British mothers of pre-school children may need to focus on the quality as well as … the importance of childcare related variables. We find working mothers do not increase their working hours when hourly … wages increase, indeed, they are more likely to reduce their hours. The major inducement for working mothers to increase …

This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b … behaviour is greater than financial perception when making decisions on the take-up and use of investment financial services. It …

of children aged between 7 and 14, we find strong aversion to lying at all ages. Lying is driven mainly by selfish … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others … at no monetary cost. Older children lie less than younger children and require more self-justification to lie. …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the … probability of marital disruption. In addition, the younger the children, the greater the deterrent effect. In contrast, we …

commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited … different functions among different groups. The poor and less educated are much more likely to rear children in cohabitating … relationships. The college educated typically cohabit before marriage, but they marry before conceiving children and their marriages …