Little is currently known about the effects of shocks to parental health on the allocation of children’s time between … health shocks on the amount of children’s time spent in work, leisure and education. One key contribution of the paper is …

adverse effect for children of low-educated mothers on human capital investments and labor-market attachment in early … difference-in-differences design and comparing the first-affected with the last-unaffected cohorts of children, we find that an … adulthood. The affected children were 12 p.p. more likely not to be in education, employment, or training (NEET) at the age of …

phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age … and perform poorer in the math test, with stronger effects for (female) offspring born to very young mothers …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …

the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we measure parental investments by considering the time parents spend with … development, but it is still not clear whether parents respond to changes across time in their child's skills and health. Using … endogeneity issues, we find that parents reinforce for differences in their child's socio-emotional skills, compensate for changes …