insight into the ways in which the environment that parents and children share has affected children's body mass, or into how … group in either the parent-child elasticity or in identifiable environmental factors. On average, the increases in parents …

. This paper examines U.S. and Canadian children with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression … income and maternal education. We find that mental health conditions, and especially ADHD, have large negative effects on …

-term gains and negative age-18 impacts. These outcome differences arise from differences in parents' response to the program. A …

We present a model of endogenous schooling and earnings to isolate the causal effect of parents' education on children …'s education and earnings outcomes. The model suggests that parents' education is positively related to children's earnings, but … with the same length of schooling, whose parents have different lengths of schooling. The model also features heterogeneous …

teenager and the willingness of parents to continue to house and support their daughters given their decisions. Drawing on the … work of Milgrom and Roberts (1982) and Kreps and Wilson (1982) on reputation in repeated games, we show that parents have …

two births in families with at least two children, to estimate the effect of additional children on parents' labor supply …

emphasis on isolating the effects of diet and parent's fatness on the obesity outcome. The results show that parents fatness …-obese youth, however, do not differ substantially. Evidence that youth with "fatter parents" are able to produce more skin-fold or …'s fatness effects in the youth obesity probability equations. The probability models show that if either of the parents of a 10 …

relationship between very specific inputs of time by parents and later achievements of children …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …