While it is widely acknowledged that the family and childhood environments affect adult well being, why they matter is … still an area of significant debate. Previous research concerned with this issue has focused on the influence of family … income, family structure, and cognitive ability. Much of this research has focused on economic and social outcomes. Notably …

childhood. Much of this literature focuses on rich countries, but researchers are increasingly taking advantage of new sources … of data and identification to study the long reach of childhood health in developing countries. Health in early life may …

Origins Hypothesis is flourishing and has expanded to include the early childhood (postnatal) environment. Why does this …

employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First …, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on these outcomes measured when children are 6 months old. Next, we use … dynamic panel data models to examine the effects of maternal employment on family outcomes during the first 4.5 years of …

While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores …

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 …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children …We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates …'s educational attainment. We develop an empirical strategy to identify these effects. We show that the coefficient on family size in …

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 …

A growing literature argues that early environments affecting childhood health may influence significantly later …