We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin …

Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK … children's development up to the age of seven. Estimating production functions for cognitive, social, and socio …

stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …

Africans aged 20-40 makes us believe that shortage of marriageable men may explain marriage patterns. Economic theory predicts …This paper studies the effects of local marriage markets on South African women’s marital decisions. The analysis is … motivated by the low proportion of married among African mothers since 48% are never married. This means that the children of …

edutainment intervention aimed at delaying marriage of adolescent children in rural Pakistan. Our treatment arms target men and …Interventions that aim to change outcomes for women and children typically target women. Yet in contexts where men are … boys, women and girls, or both. We find that targeting men, or both genders jointly, significantly reduces child marriage …

that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected … industries, working in the family firm or farm. …

, which are transfers from (the family of) the groom to the bride's family. Unmarried daughters could therefore be considered … of a marriage of a daughter is affected by the economic conditions of the household from which she originates. We … support the hypothesis that the timing of marriage is affected by household characteristics; girls from households that …

of children in the household is the main cause why some partners synchronize their work times less than other partners …