We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …

causal effect of family size on children's education. Following common practice, a linear IV estimator has been used …, assuming constant marginal effects of additional children across family sizes. We find that the conclusion of no effect of …

allowing the marginal effects on children’s outcomes of an increase in family income to vary across the income distribution …. Our nonlinear IV and fixed-effect estimates show an increasing, concave relationship between family income and children …This paper uses a rich Norwegian dataset to re-examine the causal relationship between family income and child outcomes …

The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential … negative impact of the mother's absence from home on child outcomes. Recent data show that mother's time spent with children … has declined in the last decade, while the indicators of children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes have worsened. The …

In this paper we utilize a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of …

maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others … households, reduces inequality in care provided, but it is mainly limited to older children and to the lowest income households …Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6 …

model, we combine observational data with experimental data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP) which …

We construct and estimate a model of child development in which both the parents and children make investments in the … heterogeneity in preferences both for parents and children, and in monitoring costs. Like their parents, children are forward … looking, but we allow children and parents to have different preferences and for children to have age-varying discount rates …