, especially among British children. Parental behavior appears to respond to permanent family-specific unobservables and to child … their prenatal inputs across children. Evidence of equal concerns emerges also from the analysis of breastfeeding decisions …

-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common …

parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support … welfare reforms might have on divorced parents and their children. Such adverse effects may arise because an increase in the …

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 …

they make into their children, but can reduce the resulting inefficiencies by determining ex ante the parent who would be …

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 …