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 …

at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit …, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human …

parents to children; (2) positive assortative mating of parents, which tends to reinforce the impact of parents on the child … box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental …

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 …

This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children’s mental health. Combining several nationwide … children …

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 …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … children equally between them, while the predominant pattern in developing countries is for the father to specialize in market … work leaving the care of the children to the mother. The other is that the sign of the cross-country correlation between …

part time participation in its after-school program, starting with city districts with a high share of children with an …Studies have shown that a lack of adult supervision of school-aged children is associated with antisocial behavior and … to fees paid by parents. In the past decade, the quality and content of these programs and the role they can play in …