We study whether and why parents have gender-stereotyped beliefs when they assess their child's skills. Exploiting … parents overestimate boys' skills more so than girls' in mathematics (a male-stereotyped subject), whereas there are no gender … parents who are interviewed after receiving information on their child's test scores. We further show that the parental gender …

We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non …-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common … unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using …

Recent empirical research in family economics has shown the importance of parental investments on child's human capital … development, but it is still not clear whether parents respond to changes across time in their child's skills and health. Using … the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we measure parental investments by considering the time parents spend with …

migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the …. Finally, I address the impact of adult child migration on contributions toward non-migrant parents as well as the effects on … parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child …

are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation … the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … health outcomes. Failing to control for endogeneity biases the results in favor of more proximate parents. These findings …

male earnings and the incomes of parents with young children. The empirical results are broadly consistent with theories …

survey. In terms of financial transfers over all dimensions of investment, the family acts as a net equalizer in response to …

We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non …-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common … unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using …