social preferences. We find that second born children are typically less patient, less risk averse, and more trusting …. However, siblings' sex composition interacts importantly with birth order effects. Second born children are more risk taking …

having grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents varies with the gender of their (own) single child. In line with our … grandmothers. In contrast, grandfathers' changes in happiness do not depend on their own child's gender. This result is explained …

-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by …We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in … supply model reveals that men who remain with female children are strongly positively selected (in terms of their work hours …

This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is …

This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects … children diagnosed with ADHD have a 75% higher probability of having dissolved their relationship and a 7-13% lower labor …

personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use … progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining … educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …

older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members …

stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in … later-born children. Taken together, these patterns are consistent with a reputation model of strategic parenting …

neighbourhood careers of children once they have left the parental home.We use a quasi-experimental family design exploiting sibling … disadvantage (socio-economic position) and contextual disadvantage (environmental context in which children grow up). The objective … synthetic pairs but the difference gets smaller with time, indicating a quicker attenuation of the family effect on residential …