children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with … variables on the relationship between children and parents, family size, and the parents' socioeconomic background …

of income or parents' unemployment determine children's school achievements. Second, we analyze the effect of job … their children, beyond the well‐established effects of education, income and demography. First, we test whether the source … prestige and factors of societal engagement on children's performance. Our results indicate no clear income associations but …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children’s secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children’s enrollment in upper secondary …

' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to elementary school children's prosociality. In a second step, we present … evidence on a randomly-assigned variation of the social environment, providing children with a mentor for the duration of one … gap in prosociality between low and high SES children. A mediation analysis of the observed treatment effect suggests that …

particular, the investigation considers the significance of Identity Economics when applied to parents experiencing a reduction … the effects of becoming “empty nest” parents in a systematic way …

Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in … citizenship or not. We find that the policy caused immigrant parents to (i) send their children to preschool more often; (ii … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enroll their children in preschool …

This study investigates whether the expansion of day-care places for under-three-year-old children in East and West …, personal income, and life overall, whereas fathers’ subjective well-being was less affected. In East Germany, for mothers the …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children’s non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health … shocks in the previous three years have significant negative effects on children’s behavioral outcomes. The most serious of …

Understanding how having children influences the parents’ subjective well-being ("happiness") has great potential to … pattern. Those who have children at older ages or have more education have a particularly positive happiness response to a … first birth, and although the first two children increase happiness, the third does not. The results are similar in Britain …

first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation …