This paper analyzes the effects of child adoption on the utilization of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the …. Controlling for state-specific fixed effects, the estimated elasticity of ART cycles performed with respect to child adoptions is … international adoptions while there is no substitutability between ART and adoption of related children. Our findings suggest that …

This paper evaluates the long-term consequences of parental death on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills, as … is constant or decreasing during childhood. Our method also allows us to identify a set of death causes that are …

Massive cross-sectional evidence exists indicating that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates … for identification within the same data: cousins with twin parents and adopted children. We find no effect of mothers …'s education has a small positive effect. Tracking the work experience of parents during offspring childhood, we find no support …

This paper examines the effect of parents' social skills on children's sociability, using the U.S. National … characteristics from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). The sociability relationship varies across parents and children by … Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). This survey, like some other national surveys, lacks detailed information on parents …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children's enrollment in upper secondary …

Although there exists a large literature documenting various consequences of job loss, this paper is the first to … explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the children of displaced workers and also the … first to consider whether there are any harmful effects for children who are not yet born when the separation occurs. I use …

Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation … increase in child cognitive ability increasing parental investments by approximately one-third of a standard deviation …

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …. We test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score … composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …

regard to the child's. Using Portuguese data we conclude that the parents should be viewed as a unit (i.e. as a couple), and … level of education that an individual rises to is linked to the education level(s) of her/his parents. This note serves as … an alert to researchers undertaking empirical investigation into how the parents' education should be considered with …

on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD). Ten years after birth, parents of …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 …