[HTML][HTML] Early childhood development, human capital, and poverty

O Attanasio, S Cattan, C Meghir - Annual Review of Economics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Children's experiences during early childhood are critical for their cognitive and
socioemotional development, two key dimensions of human capital. However, children from …

The economics of parenting

M Doepke, G Sorrenti, F Zilibotti - Annual Review of Economics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Parenting decisions are among the most consequential choices that people make
throughout their lives. Starting with the work of pioneers such as Gary Becker, economists …

Inequalities in children's experiences of home learning during the COVID‐19 lockdown in England

A Andrew, S Cattan, M Costa Dias… - Fiscal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper combines novel data on the time use, home‐learning practices and economic
circumstances of families with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown with pre‐lockdown …

When the great equalizer shuts down: Schools, peers, and parents in pandemic times

F Agostinelli, M Doepke, G Sorrenti, F Zilibotti - Journal of public economics, 2022 - Elsevier
What are the effects of school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic on children's
education? Online education is an imperfect substitute for in-person learning, particularly for …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials

A Deaton, N Cartwright - Social science & medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are increasingly popular in the social
sciences, not only in medicine. We argue that the lay public, and sometimes researchers, put …

Does employee happiness have an impact on productivity?

CS Bellet, JE De Neve, G Ward - Management science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper provides evidence from a natural experiment on the relationship between
positive affect and productivity. We link highly detailed administrative data on the behaviors …

[图书][B] Love, money, and parenting: How economics explains the way we raise our kids

M Doepke, F Zilibotti - 2019 - books.google.com
An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic
inequality Parents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents …

Challenges to capture the big five personality traits in non-WEIRD populations

R Laajaj, K Macours, DA Pinzon Hernandez… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Can personality traits be measured and interpreted reliably across the world? While the use
of Big Five personality measures is increasingly common across social sciences, their …

Parenting with style: Altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission

M Doepke, F Zilibotti - Econometrica, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We develop a theory of parent‐child relations that rationalizes the choice between
alternative parenting styles (as set out in Baumrind, 1967). Parents maximize an objective …

Maternal depression, women's empowerment, and parental investment: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

V Baranov, S Bhalotra, P Biroli, J Maselko - American economic review, 2020 - aeaweb.org
We evaluate the medium-term impacts of treating maternal depression on women's mental
health, financial empowerment, and parenting decisions. We leverage variation induced by …