This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of preferences between parents and their children, examining … Italian households (parents with children 14-20 years of age) our analysis reveals a significant and positive correspondence … between parents' and children's preferences. The results indicate that sharing information strengthens the transmission of …

environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …

This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on fragile families' time use with their children. Courses …, we find attending the course increased families' awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, the …

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 …

The economic and psychological literatures have demonstrated that early investments (private and public) in children … countries, implying that mothers spend less time with their children and that families rely more on external sources of …

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in … substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families. …

a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target … child effect size. The effects are particularly pronounced in families where one of the children is disabled, for boys, and …

female students' interest in programming and science and encouraging them to consider careers in STEM-related fields … randomized controlled trial. Our results show that Coding Girls had a significant and positive impact on male and female students …' aspirations to pursue higher education in STEM-related disciplines. The gender stereotypes children are exposed to from a very …

employ data from the universe of children born in Florida between 1994 and 2002 and in Denmark between 1990 and 2001, which …