connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children’s choices of STEM fields …

parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses’ siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …

We study the optimal design of student financial aid as a function of parental income. We derive optimal financial aid … formulas in a general model. For a simple model version, we derive mild conditions on primitives under which poorer students …, labor supply in college, and uncertain returns. Optimal financial aid is strongly declining in parental income even without …

sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines … transfers to affected families, we show that such transfers play a crucial role in smoothing income for these households and …

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

We examine the differential effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in … groups. In a difference-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for … individuals without children, accounting for unrelated trends as well as potential survey mode and context effects. We find that …

their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental … income evaluation data for such estimations, we conduct a refined version of the underlying survey, focusing on young women … with children in Germany. Our study confirms that the monetary cost of children is substantial and increases with parental …

Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … children’s skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills … rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children’s skills …