the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … health that makes a difference as far as child schooling is concerned. Children whose mothers self-reported having poor … and depression symptoms. Moreover, we find that mothers’ health shocks have more negative consequences on younger children …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the …, leading to a de-stigmatization of sex. As contraception has become more effective there is less need for parents, churches and …

We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons …. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved … income elasticity of 0.276, while our twin-based intergenerational income elasticity is 0.12. This is close to the estimate …

. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …

relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using … comparable values surveys for six Latin American countries. We find that both a continuous measure of income and categorical … measures of income-based class are robustly associated with values. Both income and class tend to display a similar association …

-marriage) on annual income from any remaining positive selection effects into respective marriage type. Results from fixed effects …. Significant pre-marriage income growth and a lack of post-marriage income growth for those that marry natives suggest that …

family income of prospective students. Family circumstances also play a role. We examine the secular increase in the … propensity of children from Canadian families, evident in annual surveys spanning two and a half decades, to attend university …