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 …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …

their children (whether elderly parents live with their children, and if so, with which child) in Japan using micro data … fact that parents who were self-employed before retirement are more likely to live with their children, the fact that … their children and the fact that parents are more likely to live with less educated children constitute evidence in favor of …

the decline in family size reduced competition between children for resources from their parents. The combined effect has … father to a more egalitarian one in which the wife and the children have been empowered. This transformation coincided with … rise in relative earnings of wives increased competition between spouses for the love and affection of their children while …

importance of credit constraints in forming skills is examined. There is little support for the claim that untargeted income … will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

birth data. First, there is a large gap in the share of children living with married parents (or two parents) that favors …The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in … marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on …

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992-2002, we assess whether family … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in … substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families …