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 …

events - such as getting married, being fired from a job, and having children - affect personality. However, these …

in three variations: a 'decentralized' scheme, in which the parents control the purse-strings, but the children dispose …

in three variations: a 'decentralized' scheme, in which the parents control the purse-strings, but the children dispose …

workers have a top ability if fertility is uncorrelated with ability and if the distribution of ability among sexually … produced children is the same as among their parents. In such a society, cloning has disappeared. If the distribution of genes … necessarily eliminate inequality; nor does it disappear in the long run. Finally, if fertility is negatively correlated with …

This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … reduced child support. These incentives have negative effects on children's human capital development and health, with … limit children's time spent with relatively high quality mothers, as fathers pursue joint custody in response to the policy. …

Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility … transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition … to analyze the driving forces of fertility transitions across low- and middle-income countries. Our results confirm that …

conservative areas were more likely to delay fertility/marriage and to accumulate human capital in the long run. We then show how …