the child home environment and reduce stress has larger returns for children with higher socio-emotional skills in early … stressful home environment, an increase has a higher return for children with lower socio-emotional skills in early childhood …

Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … the school depends only on objective measures of the quality of the school. We examine the association between children … children’s schooling. The findings suggest that excellent academic performance of the child is associated with higher parental …

intergenerational relationships, children’s contact with grandparents. Results from both ordinary least squares (OLS) and fixed …-effects regression models show that incarceration decreases the frequency of children’s contact with paternal, but not maternal … paternal incarceration, highlighting the kinkeeping role of mothers. Additionally, consequences are concentrated among children …

become mothers and of women eventually attaining a completed fertility of zero. We document that these groups' satisfaction …

empirically in a cross-sectional framework with data from Bolivian household surveys. Instead of focusing on actual fertility … levels, the reported desired number of children is considered.The potential problem of ex-post rationalizing births - i ….e. the adaptation of desired to actual fertility levels - is taken into account. The empirical findings are in line with the …

Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence … short-run. -- Intrahousehold allocation ; health ; human capital ; fertility ; quantile treatment effects ; stochastic …

simultaneous but opposite influence on fertility. This empirical paper aims to test the concomitance of these effects using the … of their working schedule on the number of children they intend to have. The statistical analysis, based on a "ceteris …