children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments. This paper studies the relationship … between children and female self-employment in a country with family friendly policies and a generous welfare system: Sweden … women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish …

converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are … percent of differences in these outcomes by family background (measured by mother's education), but this effect disappears …

within the family home. However, we find mixed impacts on the gaps in non-cognitive development. …

This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family …-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation …, more than half of the inequality in cognition can be explained by shared family background. Comparing these findings with …

We investigate the impact of family co-residence structure and the allocation of major childcare responsibility across …. Moreover, we find that the effect of family environment differs between boys and girls. Girls from multigenerational families … factors as potential operating mechanisms in explaining our findings indicates that the influences of family environment are …