This paper analyses long-term effects of highly unbalanced sex ratios in Germany caused by World War II on fertility … the number of men delayed women's first birth. However, the effects crucially depend on at what age fertility of women is … evaluated. While women with low sex ratios have fewer children at younger ages, they compensate at later ages. We also find …

Money parents give their adult children may be important for the financing of a child's education or a first home … economic disparities across generations if the wealthy transfer considerable resources to their children while middle class and … poor households do not. In this paper, we first examine annual gifts of money from parents to adult children in the United …