migrate to the United States and leave their children behind. Then, after the parent(s) have achieved some degree of stability … in the United States, the children follow. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, we examined the hypothesis that … separation during migration results in problems at school after re-unification. We find that children separated from parents …

well-being of children and the role of child support policies …

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 …

causal effect of family size on children's education. Following common practice, a linear IV estimator has been used …, assuming constant marginal effects of additional children across family sizes. We find that the conclusion of no effect of … family size is an artifact of the linear specification, which masks substantial marginal family size effects …

An emerging question in demographic economics is whether there is a link between family size and the geographic … distance between adult children and elderly parents. Given current population trends, understanding how different … configurations of family size and sibship influence patterns of child-parent proximity is vitally important, as it impacts on issues …