School entry regulations lead to differences in the age when children start school. While previous literature estimated … early enrollment increases the number of children by 0.1, whereas we find no significant impact on rates of childlessness. …

participation of mothers with primary school children in the West German context of relatively low full-time employment rates. Using … employment probability of mothers with primary school children. …

that school holidays cause an 19 percent (0.03 percentage points) decrease in the probability of youth suicide. This effect … robust to the inclusion of a series of control variables and to different definitions of youth. Overall, this paper suggests …

construct an index of parent-child communication quality by comparing responses to statements about the children’s well …-being from both children and their parents. Applying the constructed communication measure in a continuous treatment empirical … Kinder im Jugendalter einnimmt. Die Hypothese, dass die Kommunikation als eine Art Mediator fungiert, resultiert aus den …

class on the academic success of newly immigrated primary school-aged children in comparison to their direct integration … 2019, we use the quasi-random allocation of refugee children to neighborhoods and therewith schools to measure the effect … immigrated children directly into regular classrooms fosters their academic achievement more than schooling them first in …

and children. We study a program trialed 1931-33 in seven Swedish medical districts, assembling individual data from … was systematically larger among children born out of wedlock, who also exhibit higher baseline rates of infant mortality … any impacts of program components delivered to mothers. …

This study analyzes the effect of fathers' parental leave-taking on the time fathers spend with their children and on … mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies … on within-father differences in leave-taking for first and higher order children that were triggered by a policy reform …

Increasing mothers’ labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a … costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to become mothers and return to the labor force rapidly. Using a sharp … patterns. First, medium-run effects on mothers’ employment probability are positive, significant and large, for some subgroups …