More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is …

The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach … children who now live independently. After controlling for unobserved household characteristics, no positive effect of children …?s actual household income on parents? satisfaction can be found. However, children?s health and education have a positive …

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that limited amounts of work by mothers … children spend in enriching home environments. Some of the growth in obesity may be related to determinants of excess weight …

Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive …-B administrators strictly controlled the mechanism by which children were assigned to assessment dates. The OLS results show that … children utilizing non-parental arrangements score higher on tests of mental ability, a finding that holds after accounting for …

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …

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 … displacements on children's birth weights. These data allow for an identification strategy that essentially compares the outcomes of …

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of …This comparative study of the relationship between family economic background and adult outcomes in the United States … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs …