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

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 …

The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in … divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage … birth data. First, there is a large gap in the share of children living with married parents (or two parents) that favors …

population-level administrative data on 35 birth cohorts of children to provide a comprehensive analysis of both the mechanisms … one than older siblings at the same age. We argue that the family unit is central in virus transmission, with older … children "bringing home" the virus to their younger siblings. We then combine the birth order variation with within …

white children aged 6 to 11 years residing in those families. The partial effects of family income on health are1l and …The objective of this paper is to define the relationship between a number of family characteristics and the health of … likely to occur among children from high income families. The general finding of small partial income effects is supported by …

parental inputs children of various socio-economic statuses receive. In the empirical work that follows, we will show a … relationship between very specific inputs of time by parents and later achievements of children …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known … in beliefs about how future family outcomes are related to future labor supply. Methodological contributions come from an … longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on …