empirical results reveals the expansions had little effect on a wide variety of outcomes, including children's school outcomes …

. In an attempt to promote gender equality, a reform made fathers of children born after April 1, 1993 in Norway eligible … for one month of governmental paid paternity leave. Fathers of children born before this cutoff were not eligible. There …

worse outcomes irrespective of living conditions. Yet even with controls, the elderly who live with children do worse. This … is in sharp contrast to younger adults who live with children, likely their own, whose life evaluation is no different in … fertility rates are higher, the elderly do not appear to have lower life evaluations when they live with children; such living …

parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children …

commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited … different functions among different groups. The poor and less educated are much more likely to rear children in cohabitating … relationships. The college educated typically cohabit before marriage, but they marry before conceiving children and their marriages …

averaged the same number of children born over their lifetimes. In contrast to conventional wisdom, the mean age of household …. These three features of the 20th century fertility decline have implications for children's opportunities, children …

children with higher endowments due to the complementarity between endowments and investments (static complementarity). For the … endowment based on health at birth. When we do, we find that parents invest more in highly endowed children. Moreover, we find … in endowments (from more children) and greater reinforcing investments. These findings can be explained by extending the …

Using a Danish data set that follows 135,000 Danish children from birth through 9th grade, we examine the effect of … maternal employment has a positive effect on children's academic performance in all specifications, particularly when women … contexts, and which finds no or a small negative effect of maternal employment on children's cognitive development and academic …

cohorts of children from the NLSY, this paper investigates the effect of early childhood lead exposure on behavior problems …