In this paper we estimate the opportunity cost of children. The underlying theoretical model is represented by a … and 1970. For the women in the two oldest cohorts, the opportunity cost of two children is estimated to 28-29 per cent of …

demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, having children has a negative effect on well-being. Conditioning on age, gender … the reported ideal number of children as a proxy variable to address the endogeneity of parenthood decisions. …

present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …

This paper uses the abolition of children’s doctor-visit co-payments effective since April 2009 as a natural experiment … to estimate the effect of those co-payments on the number of doctor visits made by children. As the policy change … involved only children, we are able to use the adult part of the population as a control group in a difference …

can be linked to existing models to value children’s health effects. …

One of the many difficult issues the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Children’s Health Protection is … addressing is the appropriate treatment of children’s health effects in the economic analyses performed by the Agency. Policy … have explicitly addressed children’s health issues. To assist the Agency in its efforts, this paper discusses the benefits …

In this paper we estimate the price premium associated with organic baby food by applying a hedonic model to price and … characteristic data for baby food products collected in two cities: Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina and San Jose, California. We use … price per jar of baby food as the dependent variable and control for a number of baby food characteristics (e.g., brand …

Appropriate characterization and valuation of the health risks specific to children is important for effective … children and the information needs of economic analysts. Particular emphasis is given to transparency in risk characterization … coordinated risk and economic analyses that characterized and valued risks and benefits for children. …

This paper focuses on the availability and use of existing literature for the valuation of children's health effects …. Because the emphasis on children's health is relatively new, available studies focus on a small subset of health effects and … literature and provides an overall structure for discussing major classes of children's health effects. We then classify the …

intended to improve the health of young children. It examines four economic valuation techniques currently used to assess … method) and critiques the applicability of these techniques for assessing the value of children's health changes. …