. Domestic violence is analyzed using data on both family conflict resolution and intimate homicide rates. The results indicate a …

Many believe that increasing the quantity of children will lead to a decrease in their quality. This paper exploits … plausibly exogenous changes in family size caused by relaxations in China's One Child Policy to estimate the causal effect of … family size on school enrollment of the first child. The results show that for one-child families, an additional child …

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 …

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 …

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 …

the decline in family size reduced competition between children for resources from their parents. The combined effect has … father to a more egalitarian one in which the wife and the children have been empowered. This transformation coincided with … family size. To explain the connection between these trends and the transformation in family relationships we develop a novel …

family members. Drawing on theoretical models of collective decision-making, we use extremely rich data from Indonesia to … establish that child health- and education-related human capital outcomes are affected by resources of extended family members … who co-reside with the child and those who are not co-resident. Extended family members are not completely altruistic but …

.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census … enumerators and linking these children across population censuses, we first document large gaps in educational attainment and … historical or family-level discrimination …

guardian improves the later school performance of these children. It uses linked administrative data to examine a policy change … in Minnesota. This change increased the payments to adoptive parents and kin guardians for children ages 6 and older …, making them equal to what foster care payments were, but didn't raise payments as much for younger children. Difference …

chosen from children enrolled in California schools in urban areas. It included children, preselected by their teachers …