employment, unemployment, and economic growth in OECD countries. The paper examines a number of facets of tax and welfare policy …

-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their …This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year … children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal …

externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …

We study the consequences of mothers' and fathers' job loss for parents, families, and children. Rich Swedish register …, educational and early adult outcomes are not adversely affected by parental job loss. Parents and families are however negatively … suggest that generous unemployment insurance and a dual-earner norm shield families from financial distress, which together …

, 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 …

Given that young children are under the control of their parents, if the government has an interest in either the … welfare or the productivity of the former, it has no option but to act through the latter. Parents are, in the ordinary sense … gives rise to some new ones. -- optimal taxation ; optimal family allowances ; hidden ability to raise children ; hidden …

dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …