maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …

frequently argued, is harming children. Heretofore, very little empirical research has actually investigated the impact of … Youth 1979 to estimate the relationship between maternal employment and adolescent self-care. Unlike prior research, the … and adolescent self-care. Findings suggest that the adolescents of mothers who work full-time spend an additional 43 …

Japan, this study examines the association between mothers’ time of returning home from work and their children’s locus of …The increasing number of married women in full-time and managerial positions raises the question of whether mothers …’ working conditions have any impact on the non-cognitive skills of their children. Using a nationwide child–parent survey in …

We develop a theoretical model of mating behavior and parental investment in children under asymmetry in kin … recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining …

Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage … repealed the odds that teens would become new mothers increased, with a larger increase among young black teens. When we … CLM on older women becoming mothers. To the extent that they reduce teen births CLM laws are socially desirable and worthy …

inadequately protected, supervised or directed by responsible adults’’. Children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable or … unwilling to care for them may become street children. Parents, and sometimes grandparents, are legally responsible for … supporting children, but in the absence of these or other relatives willing to care for the children, they become children of …

of 3- to 18-year-old children and adolescents in China. Even after a rich set of covariates and unobserved individual …

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …