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published as 'The impact of parental illness on children’s schooling and labour force participation: evidence from Vietnam' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2019, 17, 469 - 492

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10614

Women's Homelessness: International Evidence on Causes, Consequences, Coping and Policies

Guy Johnson, David C. Ribar, Anna Zhu

published in: in Susan Averett, Laura Argys and Saul Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women and the Economy, New York, Oxford University Press, 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10558

The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data

Christian Neumeier, Todd A. Sorensen, Douglas A. Webber

published as 'The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2018, 84 (3), 716-733

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10412

Social Media Use and Children's Wellbeing

Emily McDool, Philip Powell, Jennifer Roberts, Karl Taylor

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 69, 1-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10228

Increasing Rural Health Clinic Utilization with SMS Updates: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Uganda

Luke Chicoine, Juan Carlos Guzman

published in: World Development, 2017, 99, 419-430.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10143

Mapping Experiences and Research about Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in Sweden and Other Countries

Aycan Celikaksoy, Eskil Wadensjö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10073

How Do Pre-School and/or School-Age Children Affect Parents' Likelihood of Migration and Off-Farm Work in Rural China's Minority Regions?

Sai Ding, Xiao-Yuan Dong, Margaret Maurer-Fazio

published online in: Feminist Economics, 2018, 24 (2), 77 - 99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10065

The Impact of Immigrant Peers on Native Students' Academic Achievement in Countries Where Parents of Immigrants Are Relatively Skilled

Kelvin Seah

published in: Australian Economic Review, 2021, 54(1), 94-116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10030

Immigration Enforcement and Childhood Poverty in the United States

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Almudena Sevilla

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 158, 63-78.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10016

Old-Age Pension and Extended Families: How is Adult Children's Internal Migration Affected?

Xi Chen

published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2016, 34(4), 646–659

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9928

How Does Parental Divorce Affect Children's Long-term Outcomes?

Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9880

Happy People Have Children: Choice and Self-Selection into Parenthood

Sophie Cetre, Andrew E. Clark, Claudia Senik

published in: European Journal of Population, 2016, 32, 445-473

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9687

Can Parental Migration Reduce Petty Corruption in Education?

Lisa Sofie Höckel, Manuel Santos Silva, Tobias Heidland

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9383

The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices

Matthias Sutter, Silvia Angerer, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer

published as 'Language group differences in time preferences: Evidence from primary school children in a bilingual city' in: European Economic Review, 2018, 106, 21-34.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9314

Delay of Gratification and the Role of Defaults: An Experiment with Kindergarten Children

Matthias Sutter, Levent Yilmaz, Manuela Oberauer

published in: Economic Letters, 2015, 137, 21-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9313

Fighting Infectious Disease: Evidence from Sweden 1870-1940

Volha Lazuka, Luciana Quaranta, Tommy Bengtsson

published in: Population and Development Review, 2016, 42 (1), 27-52

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9306

The Unaccompanied Refugee Minors and the Swedish Labour Market

Aycan Celikaksoy, Eskil Wadensjö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9168

Parental Time Investments in Children: The Role of Competition for University Places in the UK

Almudena Sevilla, Cristina Borra

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9165

Children of Migrants: The Impact of Parental Migration on Their Children's Education and Health Outcomes

Xin Meng, Chikako Yamauchi

published as 'Children of Migrants: The Cumulative Impact of Parental Migration on Children's Education and Health Outcomes in China' in: Demography, 2017, 54 (5), 1677-1714

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9086

Spillover Effects of Early-Life Medical Interventions

Sanni Breining, N. Meltem Daysal, Marianne Simonsen, Mircea Trandafir

substantially revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (1), 1-16.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9051

Peer Effects on Obesity in a Sample of European Children

Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Lucia A. Reisch, Karin Bammann, Gabriele Eiben, Yiannis Kourides, Eva Kovács, Fabio Lauria, Kenn Konstabel, Alba M. Santaliestra-Pasias, Krishna Vyncke, Iris Pigeot

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 18, 139–152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9039

Cooperation and Discrimination Within and Across Language Borders: Evidence from Children in a Bilingual City

Silvia Angerer, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer, Matthias Sutter

published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 254-264

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8977

How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8963

Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Refugee Children in Sweden: An Outlook on Demography, Education and Employment

Aycan Celikaksoy, Eskil Wadensjö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8947

Parenthood and Risk Preferences

Katja Görlitz, Marcus Tamm

extended version published as 'Parenthood, risk attitudes and risky behavior' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2020, 79, 102189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8793

The Stress Cost of Children

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Mark Wooden

published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 148 - 161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8670

Welfare Reform and Children's Health

Badi H. Baltagi, Yin-Fang Yen

published in: Health Economics, 2016, 26 (3), 277 - 291

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8609

Fertility Effects on Female Labor Supply: IV Evidence from IVF Treatments

Petter Lundborg, Erik Plug, Astrid Würtz Rasmussen

published as "Can Women Have Children and a Career? IV Evidence from IVF Treatments" in: American Economic Review, June 2017, 107 (6), 1611-37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8528

Peer Effects on Childhood and Adolescent Obesity in China

Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Xiaobo He

published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 35, 47-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8488

Determinants of Bilingualism among Children

Barry R. Chiswick, Marina Gindelsky

published as 'Determinants of bilingualism among children: an econometric analysis' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2016, 14 (3), 489 - 506

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8488

Determinants of Bilingualism among Children

Barry R. Chiswick, Marina Gindelsky

published as 'Determinants of bilingualism among children: an econometric analysis' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2016, 14 (3), 489 - 506

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8391

Maternal Working Hours and the Well-Being of Adolescent Children

Silvia Mendolia

published in Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2016, 37, 566 - 580

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8225

The Impact of Parents Migration on the Well-being of Children Left Behind: Initial Evidence from Romania

Alina Botezat, Friedhelm Pfeiffer

published as 'The Impact of labour migration on left-behind children's educational and psychosocial outcomes: Evidence from Romania' in: Population, Space and Place 2020, 26 (1), e2277

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8191

Reversal of Gender Gaps in Child Development: Evidence from Young Children in India

Florencia López Bóo, Maria Eugenia Canon

published in:Economics Letters, 2014, 124(1), 55-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8113

Are All of the Good Men Fathers? The Effect of Having Children on Earnings

Astrid Kunze

revised version published as 'The effect of children on male earnings and inequality' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 18, 683 - 710, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8020

Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences: A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children

Silvia Angerer, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer, Matthias Sutter

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 67-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7858

Which Children Stabilize Marriage?

Héctor Bellido, José Alberto Molina, Anne Solaz, Elena G. F. Stancanelli

published as 'Do children of the first marriage deter divorce?' in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 55, 15-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7857

Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children

Valeria Maggian, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 19 (3), 663-685, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7727

Left-Behind Children and Return Decisions of Rural Migrants in China

Sylvie Démurger, Hui Xu

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4:10

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7720

Spillover Effects of Studying with Immigrant Students: A Quantile Regression Approach

Asako Ohinata, Jan C. van Ours

published as 'Quantile Peer Effects of Immigrant Children at Primary Schools' in: Labour, 2016, 30 (2), 135 - 157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7607

Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010

Shelly Lundberg, Robert Pollak

published in: Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman and Robert A. Margo (eds.), Human Capital in History: The American Record, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014, 241-272.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7466

Migration and Young Child Nutrition: Evidence from Rural China

Ren Mu, Alan de Brauw

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28, 631-657

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7416

Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?

Guyonne Kalb, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 40, 1-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7371

Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A European Perspective

Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Lucia A. Reisch, Wolfgang Ahrens, Stefaan De Henauw, Gabriele Eiben, Juan M. Fernández-Alvira, Charalampos Hadjigeorgiou, Eva Kovács, Fabio Lauria, Toomas Veidebaum, Garrath Williams, Karin Bammann

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (4), 728-742

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7221

Quasi-Hyperbolic Time Preferences and their Intergenerational Transmission

Fabian Kosse, Friedhelm Pfeiffer

published in: Applied Economics Letters 2013, 20 (10), 983-986

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7119

Children, Spousal Love, and Happiness: An Economic Analysis

Shoshana Grossbard, Sankar Mukhopadhyay

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (3), 447-467

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6995

The Impact of Teenage Motherhood on the Education and Fertility of their Children: Evidence for Europe

Maria Navarro Paniagua, Ian Walker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6853

Access to Public Schools and the Education of Migrant Children in China

Yuanyuan Chen, Shuaizhang Feng

published in: China Economic Review, 2013, 26, 75-88

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6817

Young Immigrant Children and their Educational Attainment

Asako Ohinata, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 116, 288-290.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6807

The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children

John Cawley, David E. Frisvold, Chad D. Meyerhoefer

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (4), 743-755

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6689

A Theory of Child Adoption

Dirk Bethmann, Michael Kvasnicka

published in: Journal of Economic Development, 2022, 47 (2), 101-114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6380

Does Family Composition Affect Social Networking?

Odelia Heizler (Cohen), Ayal Kimhi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6374

The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind

Francisca M. Antman

published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, pp. 293-308

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6293

Remittances and Children's Capabilities: New Evidence from Kyrgyzstan, 2005-2008

Antje Kroeger, Kathryn H. Anderson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6249

Living Arrangements of the Elderly in China: Evidence from CHARLS

Xiaoyan Lei, John Strauss, Meng Tian, Yaohui Zhao

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6242

The Impact of Parents' Years since Migration on Children's Academic Achievement

Helena Skyt Nielsen, Beatrice Schindler Rangvid

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6212

How Immigrant Children Affect the Academic Achievement of Native Dutch Children

Asako Ohinata, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (570), F308-F331

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6138

Educating Children of Immigrants: Closing the Gap in Norwegian Schools

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed

published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2012, 3 (1), 211-251.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6120

Inequality during the Early Years: Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States

Bruce Bradbury, Miles Corak, Jane Waldfogel, Elizabeth Washbrook

published in: John Ermisch, Markus Jantti, and Timothy Smeeding (editors). From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage. Russell Sage Foundation, 2012.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6072

Age at Immigration and the Education Outcomes of Children

Miles Corak

abridged version published in: Ann Masten, Karmela Liebkind and Donald J. Hernandez (editors). Realizing the Potential of Immigrant Youth, Cambridge University Press, 2012, Ch. 4

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6029

Intrahousehold Distribution and Child Poverty: Theory and Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

Olivier B. Bargain, Olivier Donni, Prudence Magejo

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 107, 262-276

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6026

Effects of Parental Background on Other-Regarding Preferences in Children

Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, Barbara Pertold-Gebicka

revised version published as 'Parental Background and Other-regarding Preferences in Children' in: Experimental Economics, 2014, 17(1), 24-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5904

Migration and Stratification

Guillermina Jasso

published in: Social Science Research, 2011, 40 (5), 1292 - 1336

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5888

Child Care, Maternal Employment and Persistence: A Natural Experiment from Spain

Natalia Nollenberger, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published as 'Full-Time Universal Childcare in a Context of Low Maternal Employment: Modest but Persistent Effects' in: Labour Economics, 2015, 36, 124 - 136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5870

Parental Health and Child Schooling

Massimiliano Bratti, Mariapia Mendola

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 35, 94-108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5869

Life Satisfaction and Grandparenthood: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey

Nattavudh Powdthavee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5846

Parental Job Loss and Children’s Health: Ten Years after the Massive Layoff of the SOEs’ Workers in China

Hong Liu, Zhong Zhao

revised version published in: China Economic Review, 2014, 31, 303-319

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5793

A Flying Start? Maternity Leave Benefits and Long Run Outcomes of Children

Pedro Carneiro, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Kjell G. Salvanes

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 123(2), 365-412

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5760

Time Costs of Children as Parents' Foregone Leisure

Olivia Ekert-Jaffe, Shoshana Grossbard

published in: Mathematical Population Studies, 2015, 22(2), 80-100

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5729

A Panel Data Analysis of Racial/Ethnic Differences in Married Women's Labor Supply

Kenneth Troske, Alexandru Voicu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5530

The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence

Ernst Fehr, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Matthias Sutter

published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 369-383

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5404

Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Matthias Sutter, Martin G. Kocher, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Stefan T. Trautmann

extended version published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 510-531

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5215

Religion and Child Health

Barry R. Chiswick, Donka M. Mirtcheva

published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2013, 34 (1), 120-140

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5213

Parental Job Loss and Infant Health

Jason M. Lindo

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 869 - 897

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5153

Intra-household Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Cognitive Ability Gaps?

Paul Frijters, David W. Johnston, Manisha Shah, Michael A. Shields

published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (6), 2187-2208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5050

Investing in Our Young People

Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman

published in: Arthur Reynolds, Arthur Rolnick, Michelle M. Englund, and Judy A. Temple (eds.), Cost-Effective Programs in Children's First Decade: A Human Capital Integration, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 381-414

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5016

Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence: A Large-Scale Experiment

Matthias Sutter, Francesco Feri, Martin G. Kocher, Peter Martinsson, Katarina Nordblom, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 146, 16-30.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5015

Gender Differences in Competition Emerge Early in Life

Matthias Sutter, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler

largely extended version published in: Management Science, 2015, 61 (10), 2339-2354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4932

Infant Mortality and the Health of Survivors: Britain 1910-1950

Timothy J. Hatton

published as 'Infant mortality and the health of survivors: Britain, 1910–50' in: Economic History Review, 2011, 64 (3), 951-972

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4888

Children's Schooling and Parental Migration: Empirical Evidence on the

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Lucia Mangiavacchi

published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (s1), 76 - 92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4887

The Effect of Family Separation and Reunification on the Educational Success of Immigrant Children in the United States

T. H. Gindling, Sara Z. Poggio

revised version published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2012, 38 (7),1155-1173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4814

Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada

Miles Corak, Lori Curtis, Shelley Phipps

published in: Timothy M. Smeeding et al. (eds.), Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2011. Parts also published (Miles Corak only) as 'Chasing the Same Dream, Climbing Different Ladders'. Washington: PEW Charitable Trusts, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4774

Handedness, Health and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Children in the NLSY

David W. Johnston, Michael E. R. Nicholls, Manisha Shah, Michael A. Shields

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2013, 176 (4), 841-860

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4708

From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner

published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (1), 25-61

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4672

The Measurement of Child Costs: Evidence from Ireland

Olivier B. Bargain, Olivier Donni, Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou

published in: Economic and Social Review, 2010, 41 (1), 1-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4654

The Measurement of Child Costs: A Rothbarth-Type Method Consistent with Scale Economies

Olivier B. Bargain, Olivier Donni

published as 'Expenditure on Children: A Rothbarth-Type Method Consistent with Scale Economies and Parents' Bargaining' in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (4), 792-813

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4555

The Economic Diversity of Immigration Across the United States

Rachel Friedberg, David A. Jaeger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4547

The Unknown Immigration: Incentives and Family Composition in Inter-Country Adoptions to the United States

Fernando A. Lozano, Sherrie Kossoudji

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4512

Reversals in the Patterns of Women's Labor Supply in the U.S., 1976-2009

Diane J. Macunovich

published in: Monthly Labor Review, 2010, 133 (11), 16-36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4417

The Effect of the Timing and Spacing of Births on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women