This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within … analyze new long-run life-cycle data collected for iconic programs when participants are middle-aged and their children are in … their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare …

.S. Despite generous Danish social policies, family influence on important child outcomes in Denmark is about as strong as it is … programs. Purposive sorting by levels of family advantage create neighborhood effects. Powerful forces not easily mitigated by …

survey. In terms of financial transfers over all dimensions of investment, the family acts as a net equalizer in response to … early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …

survey. In terms of financial transfers over all dimensions of investment, the family acts as a net equalizer in response to … early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …

children. They were more likely to remain in the labour force and had higher rates at which they entered it. While more likely …

parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support … welfare reforms might have on divorced parents and their children. Such adverse effects may arise because an increase in the …

developed in this paper remained a pillar of his later work on the economics of the family and the economics of nonmarket … activities more generally. Becker provided a formal model of households producing outputs like food, children, and housing that …

developed in this paper remained a pillar of his later work on the economics of the family and the economics of nonmarket … activities more generally. Becker provided a formal model of households producing outputs like food, children, and housing that …