Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 – 2002, we assess whether family …. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender …

in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest …

deterministically chosen but the children’s future ability is in part stochastic, in part determined by the family background, and in …

perceived norms and personal aims. We argue that as long as the family has been the main provider of social protection, marriage … family, these norms have lost their strength, so that agents can afford the luxury of searching their preferred partners at … consequences if the declining role of the family becomes socially accepted, and alternative arrangements are made possible and …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …

It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection …, disabled or not. We observe consistent evidence in both locations that the second child in a family is differentially affected …