-in-differences design, we find that the reform increased the probability that a newborn lives with non-married cohabiting parents. This …

Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK … children's development up to the age of seven. Estimating production functions for cognitive, social, and socio …

-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal … differential impacts between sons and daughters or between younger and older children. Further results suggest that the impact of …

In 2015, 15% of all children in China were left behind in the countryside because at least one of their parents … migrated to a city. We implement an event study analysis between 2010 and 2018 on five waves of the China Family Panel Studies … (CFPS) to investigate the dynamic effects of parental migration on the health of left behind young children (LBC). While we …

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …

accounts for the joint earnings dynamics of siblings and youth community peers. We are the first to decompose the sibling … correlation of permanent earnings into family and community effects allowing for life-cycle dynamics; finding that family is the …

Neither marriage nor a legally enforceable contract serves any useful purpose if the parties have access to a perfect … enforceable contract. Separate-property marriage may reduce and community-property marriage actually eliminate inefficiency, but …

also an increase in both divorce and cohabitation and a decline - albeit non-significant - in the number of marriages … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

allocation of domestic resources on condition that individual preferences are transmitted from parents to children, and having …We demonstrate that the notion of a "family constitution" (self-enforcing, renegotiation-proof family norm) requiring … adults to provide attention for elderly parents carries over from a world where sexually indifferentiated individuals …

-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …