children's lives. Among mothers of six month old infants, maternal work hours are positively associated with depressive … 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 …

that marriage may help ease the causes of the mid-life dip in life satisfaction and that the benefits of marriage are … marriage and life satisfaction, and find that well-being effects of marriage are about twice as large for those whose spouse is …Subjective well-being research has often found that marriage is positively correlated with well-being. Some have argued …

a wide variety of child, mother and family background characteristics. The results suggest that the mother's labor …

education; less educated mothers appear to reinforce differences in non-cognitive skills between their children, while more … to catch-up in non-cognitive skills over time for children of more educated mothers … in life. This paper evaluates the parental response to variation in non-cognitive skills among their children in rural …

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is …

children live with a never-married mother. Children of never-married mothers are more likely to drop out of high school, repeat … grades, and have behavioral problems than are children raised in more traditional family structures. But these relationships … outcomes, rather than causal effects of family structure. Given that changes in the availability of men in the marriage market …

;demonstration effectquot; postulates that adult children learn from a parent's example that family caregiving is appropriate behavior. The quot …Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? We develop two models in which the anticipated … behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to increase care for their disabled spouses. The quot …

longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on …While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known … in beliefs about how future family outcomes are related to future labor supply. Methodological contributions come from an …

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 …