between siblings' earnings reflect shared community and family background. These earnings relationships capture important …

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 …

college choices. Students with high-educated parents change timing, colleges, and fields in ways that appear consistent with … basic economic theory. In contrast, very talented students with low-educated parents react to higher scores by increasing … programs and institutions that they could have attended even with a lower score. This suggests that students with low …

correlation of permanent earnings into family and community effects allowing for life-cycle dynamics; finding that family is the … share of the sibling correlation of earnings early in the working life, but its importance diminishes over time and becomes …

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

tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … in one type of family versus another. Our findings show that family background matters significantly for children …

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 …

affected in terms of parental health, labor market outcomes and separations. Limited effects on family disposable income …

find a positive effect that cannot only be explained by ownership succession of the family business. -- occupational choice … ; entrepreneurship ; identity ; peer effects …

This paper conducts a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. First, we … assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family structure and the geographic proximity between … adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care …