The disproportionate impact of children on women's earnings constitutes the primary factor contributing to persistent … gender inequality in many countries. This paper examines the multigenerational impact of children and whether the public … provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. Our analyses notably incorporate the role …

sample of more than 500 parents with pre-school aged children. Our findings show that our tool is reliable and delivers high …-quality data. By exploiting contextual information on the child's involvement and feelings during each activity performed with the … parent, we construct new measures of parental investments that capture the quality of daily parent-child interactions. We …

to trust other people are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask about … the responses of parents and their children. Exploring heterogeneity in the strength of transmission, we find that gender … of the child does not matter, but that children with fewer siblings, and firstborn children, are more strongly influenced …

during childhood using data from a longitudinal study, the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, starting at birth. Our work … offers three important innovations. First, we use reliable measures of the child’s cognitive, mental and emotional skills as … characteristics of children. Third, we examine the skill development for girls and boys separately, as well as for children who were …