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 … and depression symptoms. Moreover, we find that mothers’ health shocks have more negative consequences on younger children …

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 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 … parents are quite distinct: sharing decisions appears to be a form of parental investment in child development rather than a …

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

Sibling correlations are used as overall measures of the impact of family background and community influences on … specific knowledge of what it is about family background that really matters. Studies on intergenerational income mobility show … that parental income matters to some extent, but they also show that more than half of the family background and community …

-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 …

die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf. Schulische und schulergänzende Ganztagsangebote vor allem im Grundschulalter sind …