The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … information on parents' schooling and employment status. Unemployment might have negative psychological effects, with impact on …

parents to children; (2) positive assortative mating of parents, which tends to reinforce the impact of parents on the child … box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental …

This study argues that parents have a desire for dividing equally between their children, and that this motive applies … to the child or the children with greatest needs. When parents are drawn between these two ambitions, the degree of … income compensation should be stronger in one-child families and we expect the altruism motive to dominate the equal division …

adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …

characteristics. Adoption costs are lower for older children, special needs children, and children of African descent. To our … inform policies regarding the transition of children from foster care to adoptive families and may help to determine …

The Covid-19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in … challenging situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 … percent of the German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all …

influence of children’s cognitive skills and parents’ socioeconomic background on cooperation. …We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we … game. We find that third-party punishment doubles cooperation rates in comparison to a control condition. Children also …

fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children’s economic preferences …