terms of their income. However, interactions between the individual, the childhood family and neighbourhood context and the …. It is likely that part of the effects attributed to neighbourhoods, are actually effects of the family in which someone … was brought up. This study uses a sibling design to disentangle family and neighbourhood effects on income, and synthetic …

causal effect of family size on children's education. Following common practice, a linear IV estimator has been used …, assuming constant marginal effects of additional children across family sizes. We find that the conclusion of no effect of … family size is an artifact of the linear specification, which masks substantial marginal family size effects. -- Instrumental …

We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional …

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker's path-breaking Treatise on the Family provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent … been family functions and home production by government programs and market transactions. After discussing recent work in …

estimate the effect of family structure on the time mothers and fathers spend on primary and passive child care and on market … work, using a system of correlated Tobit equations and family structure equations. Estimates from these models indicate …

family earnings, on the other hand, leads to estimates of intergenerational mobility in the Nordic countries which exceed …

. -- wage elasticity ; informal care supply ; labor supply ; elderly care ; family obligations …