children born just before and just after the cutoff for a “lucky” versus “nonlucky” zodiac sign, we find that parents …The importance of (early) parental investments in children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes is a question of deep …

error in the proxy for the latent traits. Using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), we … find that children's capabilities strongly interact and build on each other: health is an important determinant of early …This paper analyzes the developmental origins and the evolution of health, cognitive, and socio-emotional skills during …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … negative human capital shock and examine their parents response behavior. To identify causal effects we can rely on exogenous … precipitation at the time of the accident. We find robust empirical evidence of compensating investment behavior by parents in …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … negative human capital shock and examine their parents' response behavior. To identify causal effects we can rely on exogenous … precipitation at the time of the accident. We find robust empirical evidence of compensating investment behavior by parents in …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … negative human capital shock and examine their parents' response behavior. To identify causal effects we can rely on exogenous … precipitation at the time of the accident. We find robust empirical evidence of compensating investment behavior by parents in …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. We interpret … capital shock and examine their parents' response behavior. To identify causal effects, we can rely on exogenous variation in … of the long-term effects of early-life shocks on children. These estimates should only be interpreted as reduced …

We investigate the time investment in cognitive and non-cognitive childcare activities by parents with different …

that constraints in both time and (non-)cognitive skills of the parents restrict their choice. We find that children … model, we investigate which parenting styles can be observed in the data and how parenting styles are related to parents … children from different socioeconomic origins. …

This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children …

This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children …