In this paper, we analyze the determinants of the living arrangements of elderly parents and their children (whether … elderly parents live with their children, and if so, with which child) in Japan using micro data from a household survey. We … find that the proportion of elderly parents living with their eldest sons is much higher than that of elderly parents …

impact of the COVID pandemic on the mental health of school-age children in England. We focus on how the significant pandemic … induced disruptions to parental employment affected children and through what mechanisms, using unique nationally … significant and negative impact on children's mental health of around 9% of a standard deviation equivalent to around 30% of the …

inequality concerns over children's final outcomes. Because parents perceive investment to be 12 percent more productive for the … developing world. I study the role played by parents' educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … develop new theory-driven survey measures based on hypothetical scenarios that allow me to separately identify parents …

This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters …' schooling and marriage. We specify a dynamic discrete choice model in which parents face uncertainty about the quality of their … daughter's future marriage offers. Parents' choices are thus partially driven by their beliefs about the likelihood of …

affect the labor market behavior of parents. This paper provides novel evidence on the effect of temporary school closures on … particular lower-skilled mothers less attached to the labor force and mothers in dual-income households who face a lower … parental response to TSCs depend, at least in part, on the relative income of each parent. A back-of-the-envelope calculation …

, 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 …