children can amplify existing inequalities across generations. Third, inequality can exist even within families, and the …

introduced in 2008. This reform imposed financial self-responsibility after a finalized divorce. It weakened the relative … bargaining position of the spouse with a claim for maintenance in the case of a potential divorce prior to the law change …

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. …

This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio …-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well …

bargaining model estimation framework that allows one to identify the allocation of resources across adult and children males and … between men and women, but that there is no gender bias among children. We also find that children are least poor members of …

targeted caregivers of children aged 6 to 15 in vulnerable communities in the country. Treated caregivers were visited by a … their children for misbehaving. The effect is greater for caregivers with higher pre-intervention levels of coercive … of school-aged children in highly violent middle-income settings. …

mental health but observed a decrease in physical violence against children among female caregivers. While these findings …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a … significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

Poor families have more children and transfer less resources to them. This suggests that family decisions about … fertility and transfers dampen intergenerational mobility. To evaluate the quantitative importance of this mechanism, we extend … fertility, family transfers, and education. The model, estimated to the US in the 2000s, implies that a counterfactual flat …