Using unique panel data, we compare cognitive performance and wagering behavior of children (10-11 years) with adults …

respondents have approximately .2 to .4 more actual and expected number of children if they are self-employed as compared to if …

This study argues that parents have a desire for dividing equally between their children, and that this motive applies … to the child or the children with greatest needs. When parents are drawn between these two ambitions, the degree of …

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

while children's altruism is not. The traditional topping up and opting out policies are special cases of ours. Both total … and informal care should increase with the children's level of altruism. This obtains under full and asymmetric … explained by the need to provide incentives to high-altruism children. The implementing contract is always such that social care …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases …

' 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 …

Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … and investor behavior as adults. The analysis is made possible by linking Korean-born children who were adopted at infancy …

risks analysis yields several striking results. 1) Females have only a 28% chance to die of cancer when they have children … unmarried males); 3) females with children have only a 34% risk to die of heart disease and 4) a 53% chance of dying from … infections (compared to females without children); 5) married men have an increased expectation of 23% to die of heart disease …

randomized control trial of 1544 children in Mali. In a dynamic model of healthcare demand, misuse relative to policymaker …