In this paper, we challenge the conventional wisdom that due to the negative correlation between family size and … earning ability, family size can be used as a 'tagging' device, and calls for subsidizing children (via child allowances) to …

“modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like …

step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family … suggest that the strong intergenerational correlation of welfare benefit receipt is determined by family background rather …

Using Norwegian registry data we investigate how paternity leave affects fathers' long-term earnings. In 1993 Norway … in fathers' exposure to the paternity quota. Our analysis suggests that four weeks paternity leave during the child …'s first year decreases fathers' future earnings by 2.1 percent. Importantly, this effect persists up until our last point of …

Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistence of occupational choices across fathers and children. To separate effects … children who grew up with their biological fathers and those who did not. The results suggest that nurture-related effects … explain a significant fraction of the observed correlation of fathers ́and childrenś occupational choices. We discuss policy …

In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave … on children's and parents' outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for … than the mother. We find no evidence that fathers' earnings and work hours are affected by paternity leave. Contrary to …

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 …

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