This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …

resources for schooling from early years through to adolescence. Recent research has looked at how parents respond to children …Many countries around the world are making substantial and increasing public investments in children by providing … finds that parents reduce their own efforts as schooling improves, dampening the efficiency of government expenditure …

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. …

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

between birth order and investment in children. It shows that a birth order effect in intrahousehold allocation can arise even … without assumptions about parental preferences for specific birth orders of children or genetic endowments varying by birth … intrahousehold allocation have ignored. The implications of the model are that children with higher birth orders (that is, who are …

between birth order and investment in children. It shows that a birth order effect in intrahousehold allocation can arise even … without assumptions about parental preferences for specific birth order children or genetic endowments varying by birth order … allocation have ignored. The implications of the model are that children with higher birth orders, i.e. are born later, have an …