household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … of adults in a household between 1850 and 2000, and for 16 percent of the decline in the number of children … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with …

fixed effect instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading …,100. Using a panel of over 6,000 children matched to their mothers from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth datasets allows us … reading test scores by 3.6% of a standard deviation. The results are even stronger when looking at children from disadvantaged …

The economic and social mobility of a generation may be largely determined by the time it enters school given early … mechanisms influence family investments in children, we evaluate the extent to which these mechanisms also explain other …

attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school … the family farm or provide care and assistance around the house). However, children themselves may prefer to migrate when … limit investments in some children's education so that they will not find it optimal to migrate when they reach maturity …

We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in … production. The distribution of the share of household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp cliff at 0.5, which suggests … their marriage and are more likely to divorce. Finally, based on time use surveys, the gender gap in non-market work is …

explains a small but significant portion of the rising gender gaps in high school graduation and college completion. Increases …-income children are at greater risk of dropping out of school when they reach the legal age of school exit …Forty years ago, 96% of six-year-old children were enrolled in first grade or above. As of 2005, the figure was just 84 …

This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive … behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment - boys do especially … poorly in broken families. In contrast, we find little impact of the early school environment on non-cognitive gaps …