We examine the effects of family background variables and neighborhood peers on the behaviors of inner-city youths in a … family adult behaviors are strongly related to analogous youth behaviors. The links between the behavior of older family … propensity of youths to be out of school and out of work. Our results indicate that family and peer influences both operate in …

problems. The effect of family composition on utility is estimated by specifying and estimating adult equivalents in … generally good and support the view that the effects of family composition on utility can be estimated from behavioral …

siblings to capture her direct family experience. We find that both variables are significant determinants of fertility, even … after controlling for several individual and family-level characteristics …

economic shocks on the family’s out-of-pocket health care spending burden. We define this burden as the share of family income … within-family change in spending burden over the two-year MEPS observation period responds to losses in family income …-invariant, unobserved heterogeneity across family units. We find evidence that the change in the out-of-pocket spending burden is sensitive …

relatively large sample of siblings and twins, the paper investigates the impacts of gun availability at home and individual drug … variations over time, the results show that gun availability at home increases the propensity to committing robbery, burglary and … availability is merely a measure of the unobserved home environment because gun availability does not influence other risky or bad …

between truncated and full-childhood variables are presented, along with 5 tests of the reliability of estimates based on …

that is difficult to answer due to the potential endogeneity of family income. Past estimates of the effect of family …) over the last two decades. The largest of these changes increased family income by as much as 20%, or approximately $2 …