study the impact of a virtually-delivered intervention on positive parenting practices in Jamaica. We find the intervention …Approximately 75% of children aged 2 to 4 worldwide are regularly subjected to violent discipline across the globe. We … disciplining behaviors, with a 0.12 SD reduction in violence against children. Treatment children also experience fewer emotional …

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 … divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage …

---rather than transitory time and budget shocks---may be responsible. A separate design using parents of stillborn children to …We use administrative data from Washington State to perform a large-scale analysis of the impact of family formation on … spike at birth. These effects are concentrated among first-time parents, suggesting that a permanent change in preferences …

of two public goods: expenditures on children and other public goods including housing. We show empirically that women …

We estimate the impacts of temperature on alleged and substantiated child maltreatment among young children using … maltreatment of young children during hot periods. We rule out that our results are solely due to changes in reporting. Additional …

comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields … transmission of comparative skill advantages. Exploiting within-family between-subject variation in skills, we show that …

As the share of U.S. adult children living with their parents increases, it is important to understand how children who … Retirement Study (HRS) to examine the effects of boomerang children on their parents' labor market expectations and choices, as … children are associated with a small increase in their parents' subjective probability of working after age 65. However, there …

show that a policy targeting additional health resources for the young children of adults diagnosed with mental health …