order has a significant and large effect on children's education; children born later in the family obtain less education … match adult children to their parents and siblings. In addition, we use exogenous variation in family size induced by the … children's educational attainment. However, when we include indicators for birth order, the effect of family size becomes …

This paper makes two contributions. First, it adds to the growing literature describing correlations between children … children in single-parent families. McLanahan and Sandefur describe their results as showing that the crucial distinction is … between children who were reared by both biological parents and children who were not. This description is misleading. This …

number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint … plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV … determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is …

We use administrative data to examine medium and long-term formal education and labor market impacts among participants … program, vocational training and formal education are complementary investments: relative to non-participants, randomly … selected participants are more likely to complete secondary school and to attend and persist in tertiary education eight years …

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 study investigates the relationship between parental employment and child cognitive development using data from … employment may be particularly costly for children in traditional' two-parent families. Finally, the data suggest that paternal … employment on child cognitive development …

public and legislators must make regarding children's expenditures, the progressivity of the contributions between parents … goals while satisfying basic desiderata such as supporting children in both of their families, equity between siblings …

The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in … birth data. First, there is a large gap in the share of children living with married parents (or two parents) that favors … the children of college-educated mothers, both overall and within race and ethnic groups. Second, the decline in the share …