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 …

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 …

Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and … (EITC) over the last two decades. The largest of these changes increased family income by as much as 20%, or approximately … disadvantaged families and are robust to a variety of alternative specifications. -- family income ; poverty ; educational …

This study examines the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of family members. Estimates from fixed …

In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than …, however not due to the French Family splitting but rather to the different definitions of taxable incomes in both countries …) only for families with three children. -- income taxation ; family ; income distribution ; France ; Germany …

We study the impact of restricting child-related social assistance to the first two children in the family on the …

effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the … early 2000's. After conditioning on a cognitive ability measure (AFQT), family background variables and unobserved … unobserved characteristics, a $300,000 differential in family income generated more than 2 years of education in the early 1980's …

Security Database. We show that in our sample of relatively young couples the shock hits households at crucial stages of family …