charged or convicted of a crime. The evidence also suggests that there are positive spillovers from older children who …

more children. I calculate the transmission of income, education and health characteristics from adoptive parents to … adoptees. I then compare these coefficients of transmission to the analogous coefficients for biological children in the same … families, and to children raised by their biological parents in other data sets. Having a college educated mother increases an …

Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

regulations are actually bad for children. I assess the long run implications for children of growing up in a unilateral divorce … increase the incidence of divorce. I also find that adults who were exposed to unilateral divorce regulations as children are …

-life outcomes. These studies have found limited impact of supplementary programs on children's cognitive skills, but sustained … effects on personality traits. We examine how a positive change in unearned household income affects children's emotional and … financial wellbeing on children's emotional and behavioral health and positive personality trait development. Moreover, we find …

moved children out of disadvantaged neighborhoods to study effects on their voting behavior more than a decade later. Using … linked administrative data, we find that children who were displaced by public housing demolitions and moved using housing … improvements in education and labor market outcomes, and perhaps by socialization. These results suggest that, in addition to …

parents face in transporting their children to private schools, which stem from differences in the quality of the local …

by leading daughters to believe that they are less capable. Children will be particularly susceptible to persuasion if …