impact of giving parents objective information about children's academic achievement. Releasing test scores leads to more … modest perceptions of academic achievement and reduced school satisfaction. The use of private tutoring is increased, while … extracurricular activities are reduced. Examining the underlying mechanisms, we show that is it public-school parents and parents of …

Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …

Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …

, there exists no multivariate study which has assessed the association between parental unemployment and adolescents' grades … the grades of adolescents were associated with parental unemployment. The exogeneity of parental unemployment with respect … to adolescents' grade was confirmed. The analysis revealed that parental unemployment was associated with a decline in …

Parental emotional support, alongside material and temporal support, is an important determinant of children …'s subjective well-being and academic success. However, not all children benefit from the same level of parental support, and there … between girls and boys, and between countries. We show that differences in parental emotional support by parents' education …

In this paper we use longitudinal data on Swiss adolescents to nvestigate the impact of cannabis use on short …

investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the … children quantity-quality trade-off proposed by Becker that has been investigated only for a few countries because of data … limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy - even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children …

the cohort and provincial variations of elderly parents exposed to the one-child policy in China. Using nationally … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB …) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children …

We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the … delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we show that longer leave increases adolescent well …-being, conscientiousness and emotional stability, and reduces school absenteeism. The effects are strongest for children of mothers who would …

phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age …