child health on father presence. We look at whether parents live in the same household 12-18 months after the child's birth … involved) during the same period. We find that having an infant in poor health reduces the likelihood that parents will live … together and increases the likelihood that they will become less committed to their relationship, particularly among parents …

Background: Family structure is known to influence children's behavioral, educational, and cognitive outcomes, and … recent studies suggest that family structure affects children's access to health care as well. However, no study has … addressed whether family structure is associated with the care children receive for particular conditions or with their physical …

We estimate the impact of family structure on investments made in children's health, using data from the 1988 National … children living with step mothers are significantly less likely to have routine doctor and dentist visits, or to have a place … for usual medical care, or for sick care. If children living with step mothers have regular contact with their birth …

This paper examines the effects of family structure on the economic resources available to children, using family fixed …-effects to control for unobservable characteristics of the family. The effects of divorce on the income and consumption of … children born to two-parent households, and the effects of marriage on children born into single-parent households are both …

to either learn from him (if children act as teachers then adults' cost of learning the skill falls) or lean on him (if … children's human capital substitutes for that of adults in household production then adults' benefit of learning the skill … falls). I exploit regional variation in two shocks to children's human capital and examine the effect on adults. The rapid …

Ghanaian custom views children as members of either their mother's or father's lineage (extended family), but not both …. Patrilineal custom charges a man's lineage with caring for his widow and children, while matrilineal custom places this burden on … the widows' lineage - her father, brothers, and uncles. Deeming custom inadequate, and to promote the nuclear family …

. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra-family … of adults in a household between 1850 and 2000, and for 16 percent of the decline in the number of children …

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 …

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 …;demonstration effectquot; postulates that adult children learn from a parent's example that family caregiving is appropriate behavior. The quot …