We estimate the impact of increases in family size on childhood and adult outcomes using matched mother-child data from … omitted factors we find that families face a substantial quantity-quality trade-off: increases in family size decrease … children of mothers with low AFQT scores …

This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive … behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment - boys do especially …-cognitive returns to parental inputs differ markedly by gender. Broken families are associated with worse parental inputs and boys' non …

compare mothers' and fathers' willingness to pay (WTP) for specific goods for their children, diverging from the previous … Uganda, allows us to estimate gender differences and explore mechanisms with greater precision. A second innovation is that … children. We find that fathers have a lower WTP for their daughters' human capital than their sons' human capital, whereas …

into account the care-giving responsibilities for young children and teenagers but not for older adults …

This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is …

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 …

employment may be particularly costly for children in traditional' two-parent families. Finally, the data suggest that paternal …

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 …