a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target … child effect size. The effects are particularly pronounced in families where one of the children is disabled, for boys, and …

We find substantial and statistically significant detrimental effects of fathers' multiple-partner fertility (MPF) on … children's educational outcomes. We focus on children in fathers' "second families" when the second families are nuclear … families - households consisting of a man, a woman, their joint children, and no other children. We analyze outcomes for almost …

The last 60 years have seen the emergence of a dramatic socioeconomic gradient in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and … graduates, less-educated women are more likely to enter into cohabiting partnerships early and bear children while cohabiting …, are less likely to transition quickly into marriage, and have much higher divorce rates …

parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … education and wages for the children born under these policies. The mobility effect, chiefly an increase in intergenerational … mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of …

with the educational outcomes of children. As fertility declines, children's grade attainment rises, but their school … education. Rising women's education predicts declining fertility and rising children's grade attainment, but it is less …Sub-Saharan Africa exhibits higher fertility and lower education than other world regions. Economic and demographic …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap …. College educated women marry later, have fewer children, are less likely to view marriage as "financial security", are happier …

comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

) effect of children on wages …