impact of giving parents objective information about children's academic achievement. Releasing test scores leads to more … extracurricular activities are reduced. Examining the underlying mechanisms, we show that is it public-school parents and parents of … children receiving unexpectedly "bad" test scores who alter their perceptions. Learning that a child scores above the national …

Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In … employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of trade-offs involved using a careful selection of potential changes to … the system of financial support for families with children. We focus on: 1) the trade-off between redistribution of income …

societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health …, taking into account counterfactual care modes. Our results suggest null or negative effects on children's outcomes: If … children three years and older are in full-time daycare or school and, in addition, cared for by grandparents, they have more …

there are significantly positive associations between respondents' authoritative parenting style and their family living …We examine and verify our hypothesis from a theoretical model that parents are more likely to be authoritative if they … are from a wealthy family. Using the data from the Preference Parameters Study of Osaka University, Japan, we find that …

motivation, which assess beliefs about math importance for the job market, and student math anxiety. The presence of one family …

This paper evaluates how a light-touch parenting program for parents of children below school entry age affects … maternal well-being. We first analyze data from a randomized controlled trial focusing on more advantaged parents. Second, we …

the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we measure parental investments by considering the time parents spend with …Recent empirical research in family economics has shown the importance of parental investments on child's human capital … development, but it is still not clear whether parents respond to changes across time in their child's skills and health. Using …

to gauge its impact on children's propensity to live without their parents in households headed by relatives or friends … socioeconomic costs of being raised without parents or in a single-headed household, gaining a better understanding of the … collateral damage of heightened enforcement on the families to which these children belong is well warranted. …