Within the past few years, renewed interest in understanding marital behavior has resulted in a number of studies which …

. Domestic violence is analyzed using data on both family conflict resolution and intimate homicide rates. The results indicate a …

The practice of adopting adults, even if one has biological children, makes Japanese family firms unusually competitive …. Our nearly population-wide panel of postwar listed nonfinancial firms shows inherited family firms more important in … outperform non-family firms. Using family structure variables as instruments, we find adopted heirs "causing" elevated …

This paper uses a new data set on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents … over U.S.-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and unborn … children close to birth, and against African-American children put up for adoption. These attitudes vary in magnitudes across …

stability and resulting child outcomes, but there is no evidence to date to support the contention that easier divorce … less well educated and have lower family incomes. They are also more likely themselves to be both married and separated … adult outcomes along a number of dimensions, but the ultimate implications depend on the long run impacts of earlier family …

This paper investigates if the impact of children on the labor market outcomes of women relative to men — child … penalties — can be explained by the biological links between mother and child. We estimate child penalties in biological and … adoptive families using event studies around the arrival of children and almost forty years of adoption data from Denmark …

estimate a joint dynamic model of the behavior of older and younger siblings that allows for family specific effects …

detectible increase in poverty or worsening of child-well-being. We re-evaluate these results in light of the severe recession … which began in December 2007. In particular, we examine how the cyclicality of the response of program caseloads and family …