Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK … longitudinal child development survey to study the relationship between verbal and physical abuse experienced by mothers and … children's development up to the age of seven. Estimating production functions for cognitive, social, and socio …

We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by … causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and …

-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal … differential impacts between sons and daughters or between younger and older children. Further results suggest that the impact of …

children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR … positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is driven by a … in life satisfaction might be partially explained by personality development for individuals from low socioeconomic …

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to …

This paper studies the long-term impact of a paid parental leave reform in former East Germany in 1986 on maternal … physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with …

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 … not by changes in family income or father's labor force participation. …

family types. We compare sibling differences in families where the mother enters the labor force when the children are older …We investigate how mother’s employment during childhood affects long term child outcomes. We utilize rich longitudinal … family members and to measure maternal labor force participation throughout the child’s entire childhood. Our empirical …