adolescents, favoring earlier-born children within household in academic achievement and cognitive skill measures. We highlight … harsh parenting as a novel channel of birth order effects, in which earlier-born children are less likely to be physically …

unobserved family, community, and school factors shared by siblings when growing up together. The estimates suggest that sibling …-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …

children aged below five years. Using detailed dataset from the current and fourth round of the National Family Health Survey … likelihood of her children being malnourished. When we focus on identifying the pathways through which domestic violence affect … health, neglect of children in terms of inadequate provision of essential child care also seem to matter. The results from …

the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the … presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio …) induces an increase in the number of children, but a decrease in the quality of children. Second, using the impact of World …

) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio … family into one of two clusters, with either relatively patient, risk-tolerant and pro-social members or relatively impatient …, risk averse and spiteful members. Socio-economic background variables correlate with the cluster to which a family belongs …

parents to their children. Attempts to empirically measure the strength of this transmission relied so far on the cross …-sectional regression of the trust of children on the contemporaneous trust of their parents. We introduce a new identification strategy … which hinges on a panel of parents and their children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Our results show that: 1 …

Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied … the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how … parental migration affects children's non-cognitive development. We use longitudinal data of children in rural China and adopt …

population of Mexico and exploit presumably exogenous variation in family size induced by biological fertility and infertility …

family members. Although emphasizing the importance of the nuclear family, the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform and a … brothers, sisters, and adult children of U.S. citizens. Under the proposed system, those relatives could not obtain U.S. visas … criteria matched to 1990 Census data, we examine the effect of family admissions on immigrant education, selfemployment, and …

after controlling for local unemployment, individual and family characteristics, parental job loss expectations, financial …