-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their …This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year … children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal …

Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills … rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children's skills. …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …

, 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 …

We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy … are plausible channels through which the reform might have affected fetal health. …

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 …

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 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 …

Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood … imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant … prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These parenthood penalties in mental health are unlikely to reflect …