adverse effect for children of low-educated mothers on human capital investments and labor-market attachment in early … difference-in-differences design and comparing the first-affected with the last-unaffected cohorts of children, we find that an … adulthood. The affected children were 12 p.p. more likely not to be in education, employment, or training (NEET) at the age of …

In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental … with children in Germany. Our study confirms that the monetary cost of children is substantial and increases with parental … sizeable for families with children …

reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children. …