We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members’ labor supply and child outcomes by … causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and …

Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using … a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target …

, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated … mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These … boys are also more likely to have private health insurance, which suggests more concerned mothers …

for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as well as whether family socioeconomic resources and school … effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of … gestation, i.e. born at least 10 weeks earlier). Children born moderately preterm (i.e. born up to 5 weeks early) suffer no ill …

, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of …

to elicit subjective expectations, and show that a mother’s decision to work is perceived to have sizable impacts on … child skills, family outcomes, and the future labor market outcomes of the mother. Examining the channels through which the …

We propose a model that (i) provides an algorithm for measuring temporal variation in domestic violence incidence based … of the domestic violence problem during periods of crisis than traditional, police-recorded crime measures. Analyzing the … COVID-19 lockdown in Greater London, we find a 40 percent peak increase in our internet search-based domestic violence index …

Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK … longitudinal child development survey to study the relationship between verbal and physical abuse experienced by mothers and … children's development up to the age of seven. Estimating production functions for cognitive, social, and socio …

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 …