to the child or the children with greatest needs. When parents are drawn between these two ambitions, the degree of … income compensation should be stronger in one-child families and we expect the altruism motive to dominate the equal division …

can live in a nursing home, live alone in the community, or live with any child who has invited coresidence. The second … stage determines the assistance provided by each child in the family. Working by backward induction, we first calculate the … level of assistance that each child would provide to the parent in each possible living arrangement. Using these …

. In a first step, we show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers …

child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child …

resources in early childhood also affects the working of the local economy. Geographic variation in child care services … universal child care during a period of national reform to raise and equalize the child care coverage across Norway. We apply a … level data about quantity and quality of child care and various community controls. Given a reform driving the expansion of …

with a disability. Utilizing three-plus-child families, we employ a differences-in-differences research design which makes … use of the fact that birth order influences the amount of time which a child spends in early childhood with their siblings …, disabled or not. We observe consistent evidence in both locations that the second child in a family is differentially affected …

arrival of a second-born child extends early-childhood parental investments for first-borns …