this paper, we study the effect of a monthly cash subsidy on young adults' emancipation, family formation, and fertility … youngsters delay emancipation and family formation because they are budget constrained. …

incorporating dynamics among family members – mother, father and children. Single equation, bivariate, and four-state (multivariate …

Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong … examining whether racial differences in family business backgrounds can explain why black-owned businesses lag substantially … that black business owners have a relatively disadvantaged family business background compared with white business owners …

This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of destination language … proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It …

This paper examines the family variables that affect intergenerational living arrangements and adult children's time … and cash transfers to their unpartnered disabled elderly parents. The family variables we examine include parental marital … changes are weakening the traditional role of the family as a support network. Because more recent cohorts of elderly persons …

interdependencies in well-being at the family level. This paper develops an ordered probit model with multiple random effects that …

We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree … to which family size and birth order affect a child's subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a trade off … between child quantity and 'quality'. Family size might adversely affect the production of child quality within a family. A …

Among the perceived inputs in the ?production? of child quality is family size; there is an extensive theoretical … literature that postulates a tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a family. However, there is little causal … rich dataset that contains information on the entire population of Norway over an extended period of time and allows us to …