of results on children is likewise consistent with the observed variation between programs and among children of …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra-family … of adults in a household between 1850 and 2000, and for 16 percent of the decline in the number of children …

breastfeeding on child disability using data from the National Survey of Family Growth merged to the National Health Interview … Survey for a large nationally representative sample of children aged 1 to 18 years from the U.S. including over 3 … order to account for family-level unobservable confounders and employ multiple specifications including a dynamic model that …

the decline in family size reduced competition between children for resources from their parents. The combined effect has … father to a more egalitarian one in which the wife and the children have been empowered. This transformation coincided with … family size. To explain the connection between these trends and the transformation in family relationships we develop a novel …

This paper evaluates a randomized controlled trial of the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) program conducted in Memphis … treatment effects are explained by program-induced improvements in maternal traits and early-life family investments. At age 12 …

food security of households and children, as measured by number of affirmative responses to a food insecurity questionnaire … and an indicator for food insecurity. The effects are largest among low-income households and children, but are also … sizeable for middle-income children …

generation influences the educational attainment of their children. To address this question we use Swedish population data on … cohorts born 1960-1982. To study the effects of parental birth order and family size we apply a cousin fixed effects design … attenuated. Nevertheless, we do find that children who share the same birth order and gender as their parents attain slightly …

We estimate the impact of family structure on investments made in children's health, using data from the 1988 National … children living with step mothers are significantly less likely to have routine doctor and dentist visits, or to have a place … for usual medical care, or for sick care. If children living with step mothers have regular contact with their birth …

This paper examines the effects of family structure on the economic resources available to children, using family fixed …-effects to control for unobservable characteristics of the family. The effects of divorce on the income and consumption of … children born to two-parent households, and the effects of marriage on children born into single-parent households are both …

In this paper we extensively analyze the impact of child health and other family characteristics on the cognitive … achievement of children between the ages of five and nine. We estimate both cross sectional and fixed effects models using data …