We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of … their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental … with children in Germany. Our study confirms that the monetary cost of children is substantial and increases with parental … sizeable for families with children …

We examine the differential effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in … groups. In a difference-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for … individuals without children, accounting for unrelated trends as well as potential survey mode and context effects. We find that …

We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the … facilities in the year of birth of the first child reduces the child penalty. The availability of childcare increases maternal … staggered opening of childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare …

parenting behavior? Can emergency childcare policies during a pandemic mitigate increases in parental stress and negative … parenting behavior? To answer these questions, this study leverages cross-state variation in emergency childcare eligibility … policies did not considerably affect parents’ life satisfaction, partnership satisfaction or mental health, they have been …

externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic … not only reduces food consumption of the child but also distorts the parent's food consumption. Surprisingly, the optimal …

This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children’s mental health. Combining several nationwide … children …

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 … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on fragile families’ time use with their children. Courses …, we find attending the course increased families’ awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, the … frequency with which they read to the child, and their desire to spend more time with the child …