relationship between very specific inputs of time by parents and later achievements of children … parental inputs children of various socio-economic statuses receive. In the empirical work that follows, we will show a …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the …-family relations and focus on households as collections of roommates. The model's mechanism is that rising income leads to a falling … size, consumption patterns, and income in the cross-section at the end of the 20th century. We then project the model back …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …

. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

low-income parents than existing U.S. tax policy. It also increases the probability that low-income children move up the …Empirical research suggests that parents' economic resources affect their children's future earnings abilities. Optimal …

attenuated. Nevertheless, we do find that children who share the same birth order and gender as their parents attain slightly … generation influences the educational attainment of their children. To address this question we use Swedish population data on … and exploit information on twin births in the parents generation. Relative to having a first-born mother, having a second …

occupational prestige is explained almost entirely by shared education, and sibling resemblance in family income is explained … other socioeconomic outcomes. Second, across the life course, siblings converge in earnings and income and maintain stable … earnings and income than nonblack siblings overall, but black siblings dramatically converge in income across the life course …

Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Our main conclusion is that family background appears to exert greater influence on economic …

public and legislators must make regarding children's expenditures, the progressivity of the contributions between parents … goals while satisfying basic desiderata such as supporting children in both of their families, equity between siblings …, neutral medical decisions, and not requiring higher contributions from parents with a lower salary …