children. The CDCTC aims to support working parents but its availability only to families with children incentivizing having … more children or increasing investment in existing ones. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the National Center …

. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six years, whether intertemporal choice behavior … is malleable. In a control condition, about 50% of children prefer two rewards the next day over one reward immediately … successfully in promoting delay of gratification. We also find that patience increases with age and that more patient children have …

children and infants. A rationale for expansion of smoke-free laws implicitly presumes that potential public health gains from … reducing adult cigarette consumption and declines in adult ETS exposure extend to children. However, if smokers compensate by … these policies may have a harmful effect on children and infants. This study provides estimates of how comprehensive smoking …

, especially among British children. Parental behavior appears to respond to permanent family-specific unobservables and to child … their prenatal inputs across children. Evidence of equal concerns emerges also from the analysis of breastfeeding decisions …

children of immigrants in the US. An immigrant concentration-weighted accessibility parameter is included to assess the spatial … concentration may continue to be more important for the children of immigrants than more simply-framed economic conditions. Further …

approximately doubles the probability of engaging in many types of crime. Low SES children are both more likely to be mistreated and …

long run labour market success of children is related to that of their parents is examined. The rich countries differ … significantly in the extent to which parental economic status is related to the labour market success of children in adulthood. The …

children from these marriages. Although second-generation immigrants with one native parent generally have lower dropout rates … unobservable background characteristics. That is, immigrants that marry natives have children that are more likely to dropout of …