Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories - children as …

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …

The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we …

We study the link between parental selection and children criminality in a new context. After the fall of the Berlin … natural experiment to estimate that the children from these (smaller) cohorts are 40 percent more likely to commit crimes. We …

, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …

opportunity costs for raising children. Indeed, we show that children exposed to kindergartens were less likely to work during … that exposure to kindergartens particularly helped immigrant children from non-English-speaking countries to gain English …

children. Furthermore, education increases the age of first marriage and birth, changes women's and their spouse's labour …

effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of … gestation, i.e. born at least 10 weeks earlier). Children born moderately preterm (i.e. born up to 5 weeks early) suffer no ill … school environment is very important for the outcomes of preterm born children, such that those born extremely preterm that …