and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in … their parents' off-farm work decisions for three aggregated ethnic groups (majority Han, Muslim minorities, and non- Muslim … local economic conditions. Children generally decrease women's willingness to work away from/outside the home and increase …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

a cohort of English teenagers in compulsory education. Our results support a situation in which parents 'tax' their … children's earnings, withdrawing financial support as the child increases his working hours. This strategy forces the child to …

We explore the relationship between the social interaction of parents and their offspring from a theoretical and an … evidence of intergenerational links between the social interaction of parents and their offspring supporting the existence of …

The impact of children's early development status on parental labor market outcomes is not well established in the …

parents adjust their investments in response to three educational interventions: an informational campaign about an …

dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …

The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 percent of the … German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …