In this paper, a variety of potentially explanatory indicators for child labor and school attendance in Zambia is scrutinized. By analysing the results from a bivariate probit model, new doubt is raised with regard to the income sensitivity of the child labor choice. Different factors in the...

Children of teenage mothers fare worse than children of older mothers. In order to estimate a causal effect of teenage motherhood, we study a sample of teenage pregnant women and exploit miscarriages as a natural experiment that causes a delay in childbirth from age 19 to 21. We estimate lower...

In this paper we study effects of mass layoffs on parents and their children in the aftermath of the Great Recession using staggered difference-in-differences (DiD). We exploit quasi-experimental variation in announcements of mass layoffs in Danish firms in 2008-2019. We document that parents...