displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45M Finnish individuals and their parents, we find … controlling for parental education; (ii) instrumenting for the parents having a MSc-degree using distance to nearest university …

We develop and estimate a life-cycle model in a rational addiction framework where youth choose to smoke, attend school …

little about what motivates parents to engage in their children's development, recent research suggests that ignoring or … reports results from a randomized field experiment designed to increase the time that parents of children in subsidized … preschool programs spend reading to their children using an electronic reading application that audio and video records parents …

teenager and the willingness of parents to continue to house and support their daughters given their decisions. Drawing on the … work of Milgrom and Roberts (1982) and Kreps and Wilson (1982) on reputation in repeated games, we show that parents have … Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort (NLSY79), exploiting the availability of repeated observations on young women (daughters) and of …

-obese youth, however, do not differ substantially. Evidence that youth with "fatter parents" are able to produce more skin-fold or …'s fatness effects in the youth obesity probability equations. The probability models show that if either of the parents of a 10 …In this paper empirical evidence is presented on the determinants of obesity in youth in the U.S., with particular …