to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with …

This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential … from parents to their children, there are large discrepancies with respect to the age group and the type of skill. The …

influence of parents wanes. Nevertheless, parents may continue to exert leverage by shaping their children's peer groups. We … parental inputs and peers, and where parents can affect the peer group by restricting who their children can interact with. We … scaled up because parents' equilibrium responses push against successful integration with the new peer group …

In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to study the effect of income insecurity of parents and offspring on the … child's residential choice. Parents are partially altruistic toward their children and will provide financial help to an … independent child when her income is low relative to the parents'. We show that first-order stochastic dominance (FOSD) shifts in …

crime as well as peer effects that determine youth criminal activities. This paper ex-plores these channels by examining … gender-specific effects of maternal and paternal incarceration from both own-parents and classmate-parents. This paper also … reverse is true for peer paternal incarceration. These effects are strongest for youth reports of selling drugs and engaging …

a cohort of English teenagers in compulsory education. Our results support a situation in which parents 'tax' their …

We use an incentivized experiment to measure the risk and time preferences of truant adolescents and their parents. We … targeting school absences was most effective in reducing the truancy of adolescents with relatively risk-averse parents …

We study the impact of higher education financing on the academic aspirations of teenagers and of their parents. We …

prediction of our model, this evidence reveals an important role of parents in mediating the impact of neighborhoods on youth … develop a simple cultural transmission model where parents affect how society influences their children's decisions. The model … crime. The influence of parents is especially important for drug trafficking, assault and battery …