This paper analyzes how culture affects the engagement of parents in child-rearing activities, and time allocations of … parents inside the family. We use data from the World Value Survey to construct a country-specific measure of the value …-and second-generation migrant parents in Australia. We show that migrant parents from countries in which obedience is more valued …

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …

Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …

This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … persuasion game between parents and their children. Parents have upwardly-biased beliefs about their child's effort and the … parents was provided de-tailed information about their child's academic progress. I frame the results in the context of a …

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 …

reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children. …

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 … with universal health care and free education is likely to be protective for children. …