This paper investigates the causal impact of direct cash transfers on health, well-being, and life satisfaction among … families with children in the form of two one-off transfers (140$ each) for all children younger than 16 years on the date of … of cash transfers on adolescents’ material well-being, life satisfaction, and self-assessed health in the first and …

Women experience significant reductions in labor market income following the birth of children, while their male … amount of the gender income gap. In this paper we do two things. First, we use a simple household model to better understand … the potential mechanisms driving the child penalty, which include gender norms around child care, female preferences for …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes … program is associated with better educational outcomes of their children. Father's participation in the NREGS, on the other … hand, has a negative effect on children's education. Further, the estimated impact of mother's program participation is …

, we compared the 2-year development of life satisfaction of German high school students during COVID-19 (N = 2,698) with … satisfaction in winter 2020/2021 (Cohen's d = -0.40) that was approximately three times stronger than that in the general …