We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …

This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …

We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little … attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities … countries (France, Italy and Germany) on the link between time allocation by parents and time allocation by youngsters …

activities are explained by two factors: (i) that center care replaces time that parents spend with the child but are doing other …

Parents invest in their children’s human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …Eltern investieren in ihre Kinder auf unterschiedliche Weise. Wir untersuchen wie das Ausmaß und die Zusammensetzung … Humankapitalinvestitionen in Kinder mit einem ‚propensity score treatment effects’-Ansatz für die mögliche Endogenität der Zeitverwendung und …

attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school … enrollment among children that parents reported wanting to remain home at baseline. Children that parents want to migrate have … increased enrollment, and parents want more children to migrate …

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 … parental satisfaction with all aspects of children's schooling. The results have implications related to school rankings and …