the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … health that makes a difference as far as child schooling is concerned. Children whose mothers self-reported having poor …Evidence on the role of parental health on child schooling is surprisingly thin. We explore this issue by estimating …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the …, leading to a de-stigmatization of sex. As contraception has become more effective there is less need for parents, churches and …

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have …

In this chapter, we investigate the effects of vulnerability on income and employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina … displaced people (RIDPs). Our findings reveal significant negative effects of vulnerability on income and employment. RIDPs seem … to be about as negatively affected as Roma across the four states, which indicate that vulnerability inflicted by …

This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and … that climate vulnerability negatively affects child labour incidence and intensity, while has no significant impact on … intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and …

, indicators of parents' patience, i.e., propensity to plan ahead and willingness to postpone benefits to the future, are …

contributes to the existing literature in two ways. First, using French data from the ECHP and British data from the BHPS, we …-employed (those whose parents were not self-employed) are more satisfied overall than are the second-generation self-employed. We … their parents, as well as parental transfers which loosen the self-employment participation constraint. This result is found …

indirect path, parents and peers also influence educational outcomes directly. Policy measures that operate on parental …