parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents' knowledge of their children's endowments and about the technology used to …, these results suggest that a higher full family income increases the educational attainment of children, and given full …

, especially among British children. Parental behavior appears to respond to permanent family-specific unobservables and to child … idiosyncratic endowments in a way that suggests that parents have equal concerns, rather than efficiency motives, in allocating … their prenatal inputs across children. Evidence of equal concerns emerges also from the analysis of breastfeeding decisions …

This paper explores the relationship between non-standard types of employment and mental health. The analysis uses data …-standard employment (non-standard contracts, places, times, and weekly hours of work) are analysed and the General Health Questionnaire … (GHQ) index is used as the measure of mental health. We find evidence of only a modest effect of all types of flexible …