. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender …Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992-2002, we assess whether family … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …

. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is typically ignored in macroeconomic models. In this chapter, we argue … that family economics should be an integral part of macroeconomics, and that accounting for the family leads to new answers … fluctuations, and argue that changes in family structure in recent decades have important repercussions for the determination of …

sibsize using twins. We find new evidence of sibling rivalry and gender bias that cannot be detected by conventional methods …

. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …

This handbook chapter focuses on important interactions between the family and culture. We discuss the wide range of … global variation in family institutions, variation which is in part sustained by cultural differences, and important recent … changes in family structures. The chapter discusses why different family institutions arise, when they persist, and what …

family members. Drawing on theoretical models of collective decision-making, we use extremely rich data from Indonesia to … establish that child health- and education-related human capital outcomes are affected by resources of extended family members … who co-reside with the child and those who are not co-resident. Extended family members are not completely altruistic but …