countries is rare. Few studies attempt to identify a causal link between family income and child health. Utilizing unique … longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we have found a positive, age-enhancing income gradient of child … controls. Using the fact that the rural tax reform implemented since 2000 created an exogenous variation in family income …

-marriage family outcomes using a conceptual framework that is widely applicable. Based on two data sets from China, we find beautiful … negative impact seems to operate by altering bargaining power within the family and the opportunity cost of having children …

We find a strong positive sibling spillover effect in two-children households in rural China, as measured by an …

and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in …

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 …

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 …

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

One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However … unobserved parental ability. In the end, family income still has a significant effect, which must therefore be causative. It …

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 …