Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System, we found that children whose mothers were temporary migrants, living … elsewhere, or dead had higher odds of moving than children whose mothers were coresident. Older children and children living in … richer households faced lower odds of mobility. For children whose mothers were coresident, there was no effect of maternal …

consequences of marital disruption for the health insurance coverage of men, women, and children. We address this shortfall by … examining patterns of coverage surrounding marital disruption for men, women, and children, further subset by educational level … larger. One surprising result is that dependent coverage for children also declines after marital dissolution, even though …

Parental spending on children is often presumed to be one of the main ways that parents invest in children and a main … reason why children from wealthier households are advantaged. Yet, although research has tracked changes in the other main … parental investment in children. Parental spending increased, as did inequality of investment. We also investigate shifts in …

indicative of a cohort effect. Our results are largely robust to the inclusion of a control for the presence of children and for … subsets of couples with and without children. We provide three potential explanations for why the specialization gap narrows … children easier for same-sex couples from more recent birth cohorts, could result in more specialization in such couples …

Identifying the impact of parental death on the well-being of children is complicated because parental death is likely … parental deaths on the well-being of children aged 9–17 at the time of the tsunami. Exploiting the unanticipated nature of … parental death resulting from the tsunami in combination with measuring well-being of the same children before and after the …

Allen et al.’s results depend on their inclusion of children whose family at the time of their grade retention is … unknown, plus adopted and foster children whose selection process into families is unknown. Children whose family has been … through upheavals or transitions are less likely to make good progress in school than children from stable families. Children …

Do parents invest more or less in their high-ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … parents invest more in high-ability children, with a 1 standard deviation increase in child cognitive ability increasing …