adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative externalities. This paper uses particularly rich datasets from Denmark … environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …

adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …

on children’s and parents’ outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for … children’s cognitive skills. School performance at age 16 increases for children whose father is relatively higher educated …

children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year … difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable improvements in children's reading and math skills at age 15, as well as in … grade progression during primary and secondary school. Effects are driven by girls and disadvantaged children …

Recent analyses of intergenerational mobility show that investments in children pay big dividends. The priority of …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we …, 1991, and 2001, we are unable to reject this hypothesis. By contrast, we find in our key result that women with children … have a roughly 8% higher survival probability than women without children …

indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found … with regard to mothers’ mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children’s age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …