The German Child Benefit ("Kindergeld") is paid to legal guardians of children as a cash benefit. This study employs … changes have translated into an improvement in the circumstances of children related to their well-being. I use the German … drinking, but parents of older children use the child benefit to pay for their social and personal entertainment activities …

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 …

three-year-old children as well as the socio-emotional behavior of five- to six-year-old children. We use data from the …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children’s health from birth until the age of three …, our results further support the advice to parents of young children not to smoke …

Understanding how having children influences the parents’ subjective well-being ("happiness") has great potential to … pattern. Those who have children at older ages or have more education have a particularly positive happiness response to a … first birth, and although the first two children increase happiness, the third does not. The results are similar in Britain …

household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer …

-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates … whether severe household indebtedness is driven by trigger events such as unemployment, childbirth, divorce, or the death of … the partner. Exploiting the panel structure of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the results suggest that children …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of their children from the German Socio …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …

children, the change in maternal labor supply when the child is one, two, and three years old is explicitly addressed …