that is difficult to answer due to the potential endogeneity of family income. Past estimates of the effect of family … fixed effect instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading …) over the last two decades. The largest of these changes increased family income by as much as 20%, or approximately $2 …

Using a 1993 Dutch policy reform and a regression discontinuity design, we find children of parents whose disability … government programs, and earn 2% more as adults. The reduced transfers and increased taxes of children account for 40% of the … fiscal savings relative to parents in present discounted value terms. Moreover, children of treated parents complete more …

Family violence is a pervasive and costly problem, yet there is no consensus on how to interpret the phenomenon of … violence by one family member against another. Some analysts assume that violence has an instrumental role in intra-family … using data on police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. Controlling for location …

welfare receipt across generations has created a culture in which welfare use reinforces itself through the family. Others … argue the determinants of poverty or poor health are correlated across generations, so that children's welfare participation … these claims. In this paper, we investigate the existence and importance of family welfare cultures in the context of Norway …

An often overlooked population in discussions of prison reform is the children of inmates. How a child is affected …

likely to be married at delivery. When we turn to fertility, we find that in families with at least two children, the …