regulations are actually bad for children. I assess the long run implications for children of growing up in a unilateral divorce … increase the incidence of divorce. I also find that adults who were exposed to unilateral divorce regulations as children are …

administrative register data on 25000 genotyped Norwegian children and their parents. We assess and disentangle the relative … importance of genetics and social background for children's standardized academic test scores. Norway offers a particularly … opportunity structures for children. The results point to genetics only confounding the parent status-offspring achievement …

Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

-life outcomes. These studies have found limited impact of supplementary programs on children's cognitive skills, but sustained … effects on personality traits. We examine how a positive change in unearned household income affects children's emotional and … financial wellbeing on children's emotional and behavioral health and positive personality trait development. Moreover, we find …

parents face in transporting their children to private schools, which stem from differences in the quality of the local …

impart to their children and how these values interact with social mobility. In the model, obedience is a useful … their children to prevent disadvantaging them in the labor market. To the extent that independence is useful for … impart values of independence, since they expect that their children can enter into higher-income entrepreneurial (or …