This paper examines how rural households cope with climate change related rainfall shocks by re-allocating children …'s time between domestic activities and school attendance. Households affected by an unanticipated rainfall shock face an … inter-temporal trade-off between current household income and future potential earnings. Financial inclusion may mitigate or …

The literature suggests that the household invests in the human capital of a child member not only for altruistic … is a function of the risk preference of the household head. This paper estimates the effect of parental risk preference … on child labour decisions in the household using recall information on child labour and a risk elicitation question. We …

We examine the effect of single motherhood on children’s secondary school track choice using 12-year-old children drawn … correlation between single motherhood and children’s educational attainment. Looking for alternative explanations for this … background, lower household income and higher labor supply of the mother. Our evidence suggests that single motherhood reduces …

In present day Germany, one in seven children is raised in a single parent household. We investigate the effect of … single parenthood on children’s educational attainment, measured by the school track at the age 14, using ordered probit … children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. -- school choice ; educational attainment ; ordered response model …

To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in …) allocated money between themselves and nutritious meals for one of their children. First, we find strong empirical support for … children’s meals than men. Third, the spouses’ respective bargaining positions derived from consumption patterns strongly …

Obesity is increasing worldwide for both adults and children. Genetic disposition is responsible for some variation in … obesity in children and adults. This paper analyzes the effect of mother’s labor supply in childhood on young adults … importance of childhood environment on children’s later life outcome and the importance of behavioral changes in explaining the …

We consider the life cycle choices of a household deciding how much to consume and how to allocate spouses time to work … work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to transitory and …

Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …