Do economic shocks experienced in childhood carry on to the fertility outcomes in adulthood and if they do, how? Using plant closures from the years 1991-1993 in Finland, I find that maternal and paternal job loss have asymmetric effects on children's fertility outcomes. Maternal job loss...

This study explores relationships between parental resource trajectories and child development, and their implications for intergenerational mobility. By modifying the child skill formation technology to incorporate new skills during adolescence, we analyze the importance of the timing of family...

The environmental-poverty nexus has been subject to research especially in relation to climate change. On the one hand, poor households depend on environmental resources as additional income sources or as additional household products. On the other hand, natural resource extraction further...

What preferences do partners hold over their relative income within the household? We provide a flexible framework of preferences over relative income within the household that captures various motives, including inequality aversion and a preference for being the primary earner. We study the...