Estimating the impact of risk aversion on emigration at the individual level is complicated by selection issues. In … this paper, we use original data from Albania on mobility intentions and elicited risk aversion to provide causal estimates … capture a (negative) relationship between risk aversion and emigration intention, a Control Function strategy using the two …

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 …

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 …

, especially women with children, are underrepresented at higher levels of the political hierarchy …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …, importantly, do not generate work disincentive effects. The pattern of results is most consistent with the idea that parents …

sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late …