The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … spouses' welfare function, this shift in power may lead to a time consistency problem. The allocation of resources after the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we …

children to enter the middle school track rather than the lower one. This suggests that growing up with the citizenship of the … children in Germany. We exploit the introduction of birthright citizenship for newborn children in Germany starting on the 1st … of January, 2000, to obtain difference-in-differences estimates for the effect of citizenship on the children s …

we estimate the causal short-term effect of JU enrollment and show that attending JU significantly leads to higher school … readiness, i.e. higher cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. Although the effect of attending JU on school readiness is quite …

intensified by the rise of over-the-top (OTT) TV platforms, which challenge existing power relationships in the TV industry and … platformisation in the TV industry, and explore the levers both TV broadcasters and distributors employ in building power to pursue …