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 …

later-born children. Taken together, these patterns are consistent with a reputation model of strategic parenting …. 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 …

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 … the child, and weaker with the parent that spends relatively less time parenting. These findings help us understand why …

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 …

annually. While much is known about the impact of domestic violence and other family problems on children within the home …, little is known regarding the extent to which these problems spill over to children outside the family. The widespread …It is estimated that between ten and twenty percent of children in the United States are exposed to domestic violence …

relationship between very specific inputs of time by parents and later achievements of children … parental inputs children of various socio-economic statuses receive. In the empirical work that follows, we will show a …

The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …

the decline in family size reduced competition between children for resources from their parents. The combined effect has … model of parenting styles that highlights the importance of competition within the family. The key intuition is that the … father to a more egalitarian one in which the wife and the children have been empowered. This transformation coincided with …