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 …

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 …

substantially higher among the children of business owners than among the children of non-business owners. Using data from the … causes of intergenerational links in business ownership and the related issue of how having a family business background …-employed family member prior to starting their business. Conditional on having a self-employed family member, less than 50 percent of …

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by … supply model reveals that men who remain with female children are strongly positively selected (in terms of their work hours …

, including the role of internships and similar employment opportunities that parents can sometimes secure for their children. We … address the help that parents give their children in the job market using data from the new age 42 wave of the 1970 British … Cohort Study. We consider help given to people from all family backgrounds and not just to graduates and those in higher …