adults and children. Using microdata from 33 African countries, this paper documents the co-evolution of adult education … 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 …

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 …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare … intergenerational effects on their children. A study of focused home-visiting programs that target parents enables us to isolate a …This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within …

child health on father presence. We look at whether parents live in the same household 12-18 months after the child's birth … involved) during the same period. We find that having an infant in poor health reduces the likelihood that parents will live … together and increases the likelihood that they will become less committed to their relationship, particularly among parents …

birth data. First, there is a large gap in the share of children living with married parents (or two parents) that favors …The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in … marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on …

pronounced for very young children, non-White children, and those living in economically disadvantaged, racially diverse, and …

their children (whether elderly parents live with their children, and if so, with which child) in Japan using micro data … fact that parents who were self-employed before retirement are more likely to live with their children, the fact that … their children and the fact that parents are more likely to live with less educated children constitute evidence in favor of …

the decline in family size reduced competition between children for resources from their parents. The combined effect has … father to a more egalitarian one in which the wife and the children have been empowered. This transformation coincided with … rise in relative earnings of wives increased competition between spouses for the love and affection of their children while …

will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …