-intact family and children's civic, social and political engagement as adults. We argue that this finding is consistent with … traditional family structures in many countries throughout the developed world. According to Putnam in Bowling alone (2000 …), however, none of the major declines in civic engagement can be accounted for by the decline in traditional family structures …

find substantial influence of shared family and community background on all outcomes. To further disentangle the influence … of family background and neighborhood, we estimate neighbor correlations. Our results show that for all outcomes …

of the influence of family on children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as confirmed by decomposition analyses and …This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family …-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation …

Retired parents might invest time into their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time … transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult … children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We …

that family background explains, on average, between 30% and 60% of the inequality in permanent wellbeing. The influence is … intergenerational correlations suggest that parental characteristics are considerably less important than family and community factors. …

We estimate the causal effect of maternal education on the mental health of mother's children in late adolescence and … adulthood. Theoretical considerations are ambiguous about a causal effect of maternal education on children's mental health. To … causal protective effect of maternal education on children's mental health. Instead, our empirical results suggest a moderate …

This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children’s far right …