spillover effect that is net of unobserved child, family and school characteristics shared by siblings. We find a modest …

Family members tend to have similar labor market outcomes, but measuring the contribution of behavioral spillovers is …

In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … family is treated. In an empirical analysis conducted over the period 1996 to 2004 that correctly matches family structure … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …

bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

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 …

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 …

We study the effect of educational attainment on family formation using regression discontinuity designs generated by … set of results using survey data. These suggest that the positive association between men's education and family formation …