women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap …. College educated women marry later, have fewer children, are less likely to view marriage as “financial security”, are happier … in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest …

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …

This paper uses a new data set on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents … over U.S.-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and unborn … children close to birth, and against African-American children put up for adoption. These attitudes vary in magnitudes across …

in the U.S. The foreign born who arrived as children and second generation immigrants had slightly higher rates of …