This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a … of increasing parents' schooling from a high school degree to a bachelor's degree. Both for the effect of mother …

treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …

The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … information on parents' schooling and employment status. Unemployment might have negative psychological effects, with impact on …

parents to children; (2) positive assortative mating of parents, which tends to reinforce the impact of parents on the child … box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental …

This study argues that parents have a desire for dividing equally between their children, and that this motive applies … to the child or the children with greatest needs. When parents are drawn between these two ambitions, the degree of … income compensation should be stronger in one-child families and we expect the altruism motive to dominate the equal division …

adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …