The impact of children's early development status on parental labor market outcomes is not well established in the …

reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children. …

children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

raising children adopted in much of the economics literature. This tends to be restricted purely to models in which the … household members consume market goods with given household income. The "costs of children" are perceived essentially as market … leisure, to care for children. The studies also ignore the question of the distribution of income among adults and, in …

Many countries around the world are making substantial and increasing public investments in children by providing … resources for schooling from early years through to adolescence. Recent research has looked at how parents respond to children …

. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six years, whether intertemporal choice behavior … is malleable. In a control condition, about 50% of children prefer two rewards the next day over one reward immediately … successfully in promoting delay of gratification. We also find that patience increases with age and that more patient children have …