Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require …, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …

in which agents decide whether to become skilled or unskilled, form households, consume and have children. We show that … initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, per capita income and fertility differentials are …

More and more children do not grow up in traditional nuclear fam- ilies. Instead, they grow up in single …" in family structure due to parental relationship dissolution on children. In this study I empirically test whether … children are traumatized both in the short and the long run by shocks in the family structure during childhood. I focus on edu …

find that the higher probability of divorce and the changes in wage structure faced by the 1955 cohort are each able to …

is detrimental for educational attainment (all other things equal), except in the case of fatherless children. Finally, a …

fertility on the teenage childbearing of their younger sister. To identify the peer effect we utilize an educational reform that … impacted on the elder sister’s teenage fertility. Our main result is that within families, teen births tend to be contagious …

We develop a model that gives some microfoundation to the impact of residential neighborhood on children’s educational … the quality of the neighborhood in terms of human capital, the higher the parent’s involvement in children’s education … neighborhood has a significant impact on their children’s educational attainment. …