mother's and father's average years of education and household income. Our results show that children from families with … quality of time parents spend with their children, parenting style, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child …

We exploit a policy change in Sweden to estimate the effect of copayments on the demand for children's and adolescents …

conceptualization of care time. Three separate problems are evident. First, the conventional focus on explicit activities with children … distracts attention from the larger responsibilities of "passive" care, which ranges from time when children are sleeping to … the amount of parental care that children in single-parent and two-parent households receive. …

We analyze the effects of children's health on human capital accumulation and on long-run economic growth. For this … want to have better educated children, they also raise health investments and vice versa; ii) parental health investments …

children living on economic assistance in Sweden is used as the dependent variable while the regional share of foreign born … regional population, so does the regional share of children living on economic assistance; being unable to enter the labour … market is the most probable reason. Higher incomes lower the regional share of children living on economic assistance. …

Empirical analyses on the determinants of life satisfaction often include the impact of the number of children variable … driven by heterogeneous opportunity costs. Our empirical results give rise to a paradox: why people have children if the … children paradox may be solved within the self-interested rationality paradigm. …

years of stunting's evolution among South African children, adolescents, and young adults aged 0-19, with particular … standards are controlled for, the higher tendency for children in deep rural households to suffer from (severe) stunting …