Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in … children's non-cognitive outcomes and parental well-being. To capture heterogeneous effects on different dimensions of children … panel data set, we analyze age-specific effects for families with children below the age of 11. Our preliminary results …

The consequences of early motherhood for the offspring are severely understudied, especially in low- and middle-income … phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age …

I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … children lowers a child's probability of holding a university degree by more than 5 percentage points. I do not find that …

exogenous instruments of fertility. The results show strong impact of children on preventing old parents from strenuous works at … senior age, e.g. having one more child significantly reduces post-retirement aged rural parents' probability of working by 12 ….8 percentage points. Such impact is especially strong among the more vulnerable elder parents with worse health and little pension …

experiences. As children are vulnerable to early life experi- ences, whether they have a good or bad start has long … of longitudinal data following children for a long time. More recently, studies focusing on developing countries are … beginning to emerge with the maturity of some longitudinal datasets tracking children, even if it remains much to discover in …