The effect of children and career interruptions on the family gap is analysed based on Danish longitudinal data … when controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, the negative effect of children on mothers? wages disappears. The main … effect of children seems to be loss of human capital accumulation during childbirth periods. Beside this, there is no …

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …

The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach … children who now live independently. After controlling for unobserved household characteristics, no positive effect of children …?s actual household income on parents? satisfaction can be found. However, children?s health and education have a positive …

data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for … family gap. …

for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market …

inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to … growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment …

large-scale physical destruction on the educational attainment, health status and labor market outcomes of German children … school-age during WWII. First, these children had 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood, with those in the … most hard-hit cities completing 1.2 fewer years. Second, these children were about half inches (one centimeter) shorter and …

during the period 1997-2007. After controlling for a large number of family-related variables, including take-up history of …

older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. …