children of lesbian parents as those whose biological mother was a registered same-sex partner no later than six months after … whole period. We find that boys and girls with lesbian parents had 2.4 percent lower birth weight than other children, a … uses a small sample so precision is low. The point estimates show that boys with lesbian parents outperform other children …

children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal …-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … differential impacts between sons and daughters or between younger and older children. Further results suggest that the impact of …

-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our results indicate no consistent patterns for … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children's enrollment in upper secondary …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children’s secondary school track choice in … Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our results indicate no consistent patterns for … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children’s enrollment in upper secondary …

This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child … development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means …-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings …

the cohort and provincial variations of elderly parents exposed to the one-child policy in China. Using nationally … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB …) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children …

the cohort and provincial variations of elderly parents exposed to the one-child policy in China. Using nationally … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents' subjective well-being (SWB …) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children …

on sibling differences and (ii) reverse causality by focusing on parents' employment when children are aged 0-3. We use …This paper analyzes whether there exists a causal relationship between parental employment and children's educational … attainment. We address potential endogeneity problems due to (i) selection of parents in the labor market by estimating a model …