labor supply responsiveness of couples through a life-cycle model of family labor supply and fertility. Allowing fertility …

social preferences. We find that second born children are typically less patient, less risk averse, and more trusting …. However, siblings’ sex composition interacts importantly with birth order effects. Second born children are more risk taking …

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 …

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 …

, 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 …

's benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy consisting of joint taxation of married couples, monetary transfers and … in-kind benefits which reduce the time cost of children. Then we simulate alternative reforms of the tax and the child … results: First, policies which simply increase the family budget either via higher transfers (direct or in-kind) or via family …