divorce has persistent, and mostly negative, effects on children that differ significantly between boys and girls. Treated …Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether … divorce. This results holds also conditioning on the overall share of female co-workers in a firm.We find that parental …

the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are …

In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited … impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …

are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation/divorce …A substantial and growing fraction of children across Europe and the US live in single parent households. Law practices … the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational …

regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education … better care for their children, thus increasing the socioeconomic gap. …

respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on … parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents … to add to their children's quality by investing in their human capital (or the price effect). Our empirical strategy …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …

This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk …. Symmetry in education (both spouses receive an equal amount of education) then acts like an insurance device in case of divorce …

children from these marriages. Although second-generation immigrants with one native parent generally have lower dropout rates … unobservable background characteristics. That is, immigrants that marry natives have children that are more likely to dropout of …