This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill … childhood is hard-as available evidence suggests-uninsurable income risk can negatively impact the labor market prospects of …

idiosyncratic risk implied by the benchmark process is between two-to-four times higher than the canonical Gaussian one. Third, the … transitory income (e.g., from a stimulus check) is higher under non-Gaussian earnings risk. …

recessions. First, we show that the consumption risk of short-time work is considerably smaller compared to unemployment using … risk of workers, which mitigates their precautionary savings motive. Using a quantitative model analysis, we show that this …

the distance to school, their safety when commuting to school, lack of agency, and deep-rooted cultural norms. In Zambia …