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 …

sex ratio (males to females) in two generations -- those prenatally exposed and their children -- presumably through …

shocks such as marriage, divorce, and children. Our model generates a wealth profile and a low and stable equity fraction …

women. To investigate this idea, we build and estimate an equilibrium search model with education, marriage/divorce …/remarriage, and household labor supply decisions. A key feature of the model is that women bear a larger share of the divorce burden …, mainly because they are more closely tied to their children relative to men. Our focus on education is motivated by the fact …

In this chapter we revisit the relationship between income and fertility. There is overwhelming empirical evidence that … fertility is negatively related to income in most countries at most times. Several theories have been proposed in the literature … invest more in children and less in market-specific human capital and thus have lower earnings. We revisit these and other …

early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …

environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher divorce probability and changes in wage structure are each able to … explain a large proportion of the LFP increase. Higher divorce risk increases LFP not because the latter contributes to higher … towards the adjustment of marital consumption in the face of increased divorce risk. …

parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children …