impacts on children's development in mathematics, language and executive functioning. Compared to business as usual, the nine …

Parents make important choices for their children in many areas of life, yet the empirical literature on this topic is … scarce. We study parents’ competitiveness choices for their children by combining two large-scale artefactual field … about their children’s competitiveness preferences. Third, parents’ choices predict children's later-in-life educational …

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 …

While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific … states, we show that the reform slightly increased stress-related health problems among school children. While increasing … increased weekly instruction time and study its effects on stress-related outpatient diagnoses from the universe of health …

show that, in terms of health setbacks, children exposed in utero only to the former suffered as much as those exposed to … stronger crop failure effect for children born in isolated areas …

The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … health care. Both a panel analysis of districts and an assessment at the individual level yield the result that increasing …

children’s skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills …Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children’s skills …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate …’ preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …