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 …

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 …

Using U.S. Census data for the years 1960-1980, we study the impact of unilateral divorce on outcomes of children (age … 6-15) and their mothers. We find that the reform increased mothers' divorce, decreased family income and increased the … fraction of mothers below the poverty line. For children, we find not only negative results on investment, measured as the …

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

the family tree structure of the PSID to examine two claims found in the literature: whether being early in the birth … family fixed effects estimations, we find that being first-born confers a significant educational advantage that persists …

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

inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to … growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment …

$2,100, between 1993 and 1997. Using a panel of roughly 4,500 children matched to their mothers from National …Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and … measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children …

Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health … and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse than their right-handed counterparts …) Vocabulary, (3) Mathematics, (4) Reading and (5) Comprehension. We find that while left-handed children have a significantly …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such …