We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non …-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common … unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using …

groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two … necessary features that explain the origin of the family are given by uncertain paternity and overlapping cohorts of dependent … children. With such two features built into our model, and under the assumption that individuals care only for the propagation …

wills planning to divide their estates unequally among their children. These plans for unequal division are particularly … concentrated in complex families, that is, families with stepchildren and families with genetic children with whom the parent has … had no contact (e.g., children from previous marriages). We find that in complex families past and current contact between …

, especially among British children. Parental behavior appears to respond to permanent family-specific unobservables and to child …This paper estimates a model of dynamic intrahousehold investment behavior which incorporates family fixed effects and … their prenatal inputs across children. Evidence of equal concerns emerges also from the analysis of breastfeeding decisions …

The analysis uses a unique set of data matching mothers and their young adult children to study the impact of family … Household Panel Study. Mother’s education is found to be a very powerful predictor of their children’s educational attainments …, particularly for young women. Having spent some time in a single-parent family tends to reduce the educational attainments of young …

rights. Because of the presence of transaction costs in marriage, altruistic parents cannot contract upon the investments … they make into their children, but can reduce the resulting inefficiencies by determining ex ante the parent who would be …