from the IDEFICS study of children aged 2-9 in 16 regions of eight European countries. Based on such data as accelerometer …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. …

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The … link with patience is specific for children below 18 years old, and the highest level of patience is associated with having …

slowly. Children of teenagers may experience difficult childhoods and hence be more likely to commit crimes subsequently. I …

wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that limited amounts of work by mothers … children spend in enriching home environments. Some of the growth in obesity may be related to determinants of excess weight …

assessments. Mothers might react to having a poorly developing child by dropping out of the formal labor force in order to spend …

This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their mother´s working status when the … mother´s participation and the schooling status of her children in a joint framework. Using the second National Family Health …, children of working mothers have a lower probability of attending school. This, together with the result that only illiterate …

virtually no effect. Mothers' work interruptions of up to two months before birth have a positive effect on birth outcomes …, 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 …

mothers spend with their children. Since the institutional context is one in which the alternative is subsidized day care, the …We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate …