We study the consequences of mothers' and fathers' job loss for parents, families, and children. Rich Swedish register …, educational and early adult outcomes are not adversely affected by parental job loss. Parents and families are however negatively … affected in terms of parental health, labor market outcomes and separations. Limited effects on family disposable income …

externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …

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 …

particular, the investigation considers the significance of Identity Economics when applied to parents experiencing a reduction … the effects of becoming "empty nest" parents in a systematic way. …

, dwelling, household income, and personal income. First-time parents and childless respondents were matched in a procedure … with personal income. For the remaining domains, parents' satisfaction largely resembled that of the matched childless …Longitudinal studies have documented improvements in parents' life satisfaction due to childbearing, followed by …

Understanding how having children influences the parents' subjective well-being ("happiness") has great potential to … pattern. Those who have children at older ages or have more education have a particularly positive happiness response to a … first birth, and although the first two children increase happiness, the third does not. The results are similar in Britain …

This study argues that parents have a desire for dividing equally between their children, and that this motive applies … to the child or the children with greatest needs. When parents are drawn between these two ambitions, the degree of … income compensation should be stronger in one-child families and we expect the altruism motive to dominate the equal division …

adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …

Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) werden Personen betrachtet, die im Zeitablauf zu Eltern werden. Es ergibt sich ein … signifikant positiver Effekt von Kinder im Haushalt. Weiterhin werden Interaktionsterme gebildet, um Effekte individueller …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children's enrollment in upper secondary …