characteristics. Adoption costs are lower for older children, special needs children, and children of African descent. To our … inform policies regarding the transition of children from foster care to adoptive families and may help to determine …

We study the link between parental selection and children criminality in a new context. After the fall of the Berlin … natural experiment to estimate that the children from these (smaller) cohorts are 40 percent more likely to commit crimes. We …

This study investigates whether the expansion of day-care places for under-three-year-old children in East and West …, personal income, and life overall, whereas fathers' subjective well-being was less affected. In East Germany, for mothers the …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health … shocks in the previous three years have significant negative effects on children's behavioral outcomes. The most serious of …

We study the link between parental selection and children criminality in a new context. After the fall of the Berlin … natural experiment to estimate that the children from these (smaller) cohorts are 40 percent more likely to commit crimes. We …

We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we … offer is that a parentś immune system is refreshed by a childś infections at a time when their own protection starts wearing …, and 2001, we are unable to reject this hypothesis. By contrast, we find in our key result that women with children have a …

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. …

We study the role of parental wealth for children's educational and occupational outcomes across three types of welfare … of substantial associations between parental wealth and children's educational success and social mobility in three …