We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children’s present bias and … willing to pay money to override their children’s choices. Parental interference predicts more intensive parenting styles and …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … children equally between them, while the predominant pattern in developing countries is for the father to specialize in market … work leaving the care of the children to the mother. The other is that the sign of the cross-country correlation between …

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 …

parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …

, the actual number of educated workers in the source economy decreases, and the aggregate level of human capital in this … economy would thus be negatively affected. …

consequence of job displacement. Using an event study approach we compare the birth rates of displaced women with those of women … unaffected by job loss after establishing the pre-displacement comparability of these groups. Our results reveal that job … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are …

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education …

, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off between the quantity and quality of their children is augmented with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …

, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off between the quantity and quality of their children is augmented with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …