, 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 …

their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet …We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

We study the consequences of mothers' and fathers' job loss for parents, families, and children. Rich Swedish register … with universal health care and free education is likely to be protective for children. … propensity score matching and controlling for pre-displacement outcomes. Our overall conclusion is positive: childhood health …

We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …

In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children … under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long …

Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision- making. For example, in … citizenship or not. We find that the policy caused immigrant parents to (i) send their children to preschool more often; (ii … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enrol their children in preschool …

We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we … offer is that a parentś immune system is refreshed by a childś infections at a time when their own protection starts wearing …, and 2001, we are unable to reject this hypothesis. By contrast, we find in our key result that women with children have a …

This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children’s mental health. Combining several nationwide … hospitalization for mental health-related reasons by the age of 30. We find that there is no clear evidence of increased … death. We also provide descriptive evidence of an increase in the use of mental health-related medications and sickness …