, which can be interpreted as weak evidence for parental altruism. The paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach … will be introduced, where the life satisfaction data of parents will be regressed onto the living conditions of their …

minimum altruism, in which child labor in a given family is judged relative to a specific social standard. Under this … criterion, child labor is exploitative only in families where the parent (or guardian) displays insufficient altruism towards …

parenting styles (related to Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian and paternalistic … altruism towards children. They can affect their children's choices via two channels: either by influencing their preferences …

indirect path, parents and peers also influence educational outcomes directly. Policy measures that operate on parental …

the study of interdependent utility in general, and altruism between parents and children in particular. We introduce an … appropriate econometric methodology and, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000-2002, find that the … parents? self-reported happiness depends positively, albeit not very strongly, on the happiness of adult children who moved …

daughters, as well as with other economic and socio-demographic variables. We estimate these correlations using data on parents … and children in households surveyed in the eight waves of the European Community Household Panel-ECHP (1994-2001) for 14 … EU countries. To assess the robustness of these correlations, we use siblings in the Panel and we investigate the …

-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their … children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …