We study the effect of educational attainment on family formation using regression discontinuity designs generated by … set of results using survey data. These suggest that the positive association between men’s education and family formation …

neglected area in historical stature studies is the relationship between stature and family size, and statures are documented … here to be positively related with family size. The relationship between material inequality and heath is the subject of …-spatial relationship between the environment and stature. -- family economics ; stature ; wealth ; inequality ; insolation ; vitamin D …

This paper argues that the pace to return to work after childbirth is not independent of family values. I evaluate the … to work of mothers who hold different family values. Using a regression discontinuity design and an epidemiological … approach to family values I find that although the policy has substantially increased the pace to return to work of mothers …

households. -- instrumental partner-violence ; non-cooperative family decision-making ; welfare policy …

We provide a theory whereby non-benevolent, self-employed households increase their expected family size to raise the … likelihood that an inside family member will be a good match at running the business. Hence, having larger family sizes raises …

The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to … provide credible evidence about the underlying family factors that drive the pervasive correlations. We employ a unique … connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these …