We construct linked register data on five Norwegian birth cohorts, covering: criminal charges after age 15; family … disruptive family events including divorce or maternal death during childhood. There is a relationship between continuity of … associated with reduced risk after allowing for family history and circumstances. …

deterministically chosen but the children's future ability is in part stochastic, in part determined by the family background, and in …

parenthood have been on the rise. Family policies and regulations dealing with family break-up are thus confronted with new and … greater challenges. After describing important changes in household and family composition in more detail, this paper outlines … the regulation of the consequences of family break up in relation to alimony and child support. The main part of the paper …

As a consequence of changing patterns of family formation and dissolution in the western world, national welfare … parents, the majority of whom are women, is still rather limited. While family-friendly policies - most of them based on …

this paper, we study the effect of a monthly cash subsidy on young adults' emancipation, family formation, and fertility … youngsters delay emancipation and family formation because they are budget constrained. …

incorporating dynamics among family members – mother, father and children. Single equation, bivariate, and four-state (multivariate …

Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong … examining whether racial differences in family business backgrounds can explain why black-owned businesses lag substantially … that black business owners have a relatively disadvantaged family business background compared with white business owners …

This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of destination language … proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It …

This paper examines the family variables that affect intergenerational living arrangements and adult children's time … and cash transfers to their unpartnered disabled elderly parents. The family variables we examine include parental marital … changes are weakening the traditional role of the family as a support network. Because more recent cohorts of elderly persons …