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 …

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 …

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 …

Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation …

explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the children of displaced workers and also the … first to consider whether there are any harmful effects for children who are not yet born when the separation occurs. I use … detailed work and fertility histories from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to estimate the effect of parents' job …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the …, leading to a de-stigmatization of sex. As contraception has become more effective there is less need for parents, churches and …

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

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 …

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 …