A huge literature shows that childhood health and educational attainment are highly correlated. However, estimates for the effect of childhood health on educational attainment under risk generally confound the effect of liquidity constraints and of lack of insurance against risk. It is unclear...

This study considers life satisfaction in relation to the empty nest syndrome, which is a situation where there are feelings of loss or loneliness for mothers and/or fathers following the departure of the last child from the parental home. In particular, the investigation considers the...

Using longitudinal data for children aged 10-15 years living in England in 2009-2014 we test the hypothesis that income matters for children’s life satisfaction. The results suggest that children are more satisfied with life the more income their family has. Income effects are larger the less...

Many poor households in developing countries are liquidity-constrained. As a result, they may under-invest in the human capital of their children. We provide new evidence on the long-term (10-year) effects of cash transfers using data from Ecuador. Our analysis is based on two separate sources...

Many poor households in developing countries are liquidity-constrained. As a result, they may under-invest in the human capital of their children. We provide new evidence on the long-term (10-year) effects of cash transfers using data from Ecuador. Our analysis is based on two separate sources...

In this paper, we conduct a theoretical analysis of why individuals provide care and attention to their elderly parents using a two-period overlapping generations model with endogenous saving and a "contest success function" and test this model using micro data from a Japanese household survey,...

Using rich administrative data from Norway, we evaluate a 1998 work-encouraging reform targeted at single parents. We especially focus on educational performance for children of the involved single mothers. For all children of single mothers, the effect on school grades at completion of junior...

Glücksforscher untersuchen meist die Zufriedenheit der Erwachsenen und welche Einflussfaktoren diese fördern und verbessern. Doch Förderung kann bei den ganz Kleinen besonders fruchtbar sein. Dabei zeigt sich, dass nicht das Haushaltseinkommen, sondern gemeinsame Aktivitäten für das Glück...

Berechnungen des IW Köln zeigen, dass es in Regionen mit vielen armutsgefährdeten Kindern auch häufiger zu Schulabbrüchen kommt. Die Armutsgefährdung geht dabei häufig mit geringerer Bildung der Eltern einher. Damit sich durch Vererbung von Bildungsarmut die Armutsgefährdung in...

Over the past two decades immigration enforcement has grown exponentially in the United States. We exploit the geographical and temporal variation in a novel index of the intensity of immigration enforcement between 2005 and 2011 to show how the average yearly increase in interior immigration...

The minimum wage has increased in multiple states over the past three decades. Research has focused on effects on labor supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this knowledge gap and provide an investigation focused on...

This paper studies the educational consequences of language proficiency by investigating the relationship between dialect-speaking and academic performance of 5-6 year old children in the Netherlands. We find that dialect-speaking has a modestly negative effect on boys' language test scores. In...

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family disadvantage disproportionately impedes the pre-market development of boys. We find that, relative to their sisters, boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of...

Amtliche Statistiken zeigen, dass Kinder im Vergleich zu anderen Bevölkerungsgruppen öfter auf den Bezug von Sozialleistungen angewiesen sind und häufiger in einkommensarmen Haushalten leben. Die materielle Situation von Kindern muss dabei immer im Haushalts-und Familienkontext betrachtet...

Childhood obesity has been rising steadily in most parts of the world. Popular speculation attributes some of that increase to rising maternal employment. Employed mothers spend less time at home and thus less time with their children, whose diets and physical activity may suffer. Also, children...

Female labor market participation rates have increased substantially in many countries over the last decades, especially those of mothers with young children. This trend has triggered an intense debate about its implications for children's well-being and long-term educational outcomes. The...

Armut im Kindesalter kann unmittelbare und langfristige negative Auswirkungen für die betroffenen Kinder nach sich ziehen. Um die Chancen und Lebensbedingungen der Kinder in der Schweiz möglichst umfassend abbilden zu können, werden in der vorliegenden Studie zwei einkommensbasierte...

Compared to developing economies, European transition economies had high levels of human capital when their transitions began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena...