The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach …?s actual household income on parents? satisfaction can be found. However, children?s health and education have a positive … will be introduced, where the life satisfaction data of parents will be regressed onto the living conditions of their …

and parental time use. We then use data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children and the Australian Time Use …

care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In … been recently studied, many other dimensions of family well-being have received little attention. This paper attempts to … of family well-being. In addition, we attempt to handle the possibility of non-random selection into subsidy receipt by …

receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … in the distance to a public human services agency reduces the likelihood that a family receives a child care subsidy … care subsidies on children's weight outcomes. Our instrumental variables estimates suggest that subsidized child care leads …

these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic …

Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive …-B administrators strictly controlled the mechanism by which children were assigned to assessment dates. The OLS results show that … children utilizing non-parental arrangements score higher on tests of mental ability, a finding that holds after accounting for …

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children's age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …

for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market …

distance between adult children and elderly parents. Given current population trends, understanding how different … estimate the causal effect of sibship size on the geographic distance between older parents and adult children by using a large …An emerging question in demographic economics is whether there is a link between family size and the geographic …

light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare … and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal … childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response is strongest for single parents and low …