In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond … previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults rather than agents, we develop a noncooperative model …

the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of …This comparative study of the relationship between family economic background and adult outcomes in the United States … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs …

ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …

changes in the early life economic environment on late life cognition. In European countries, about three to four economic …

and are nationally representative of the Chinese population in this age span. Our measures of cognition in CHARLS relies … on two measures that proxy for different dimensions of adult cognition – episodic memory and intact mental status. We … people. These gender differences in cognition are especially concentrated in the older age groups and poorer communities …

converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are … percent of differences in these outcomes by family background (measured by mother's education), but this effect disappears …

children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments. This paper studies the relationship … between children and female self-employment in a country with family friendly policies and a generous welfare system: Sweden …Previous studies, mostly from Anglo-Saxon countries, find a positive correlation between the presence of young children …

This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of destination language … proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It … is tested using data on a sample of recent immigrants. Children are shown to have a negative effect on their mother …