Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such …

Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … children through the caring preferences of their parents or has treated them as household public goods [Bourguignon (1999 …); Blundell et al. (2005)]. This paper seeks to determine whether children of a certain age are decision-makers. We focus on the …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

Jews born in the United States. Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States since 1965 appear to have made a very …

similar to the patterns found among Jews born in the United States. Soviet Jewish immigrants appear to have made a very …

and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial … of most contemporary American Jews. Starting in operative, craft and laborer jobs in small scale manufacturing or in …. American Jews, from the earliest period to the present, have had high rates of self-employment compared to the non-farm white …

following: between 1882-1947, in successive waves of immigration, some 543,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine, joining the 24 … enriched by 879,486 immigrants, a growth rate of 19.3 percent. In 1991, 15,000 Jews were airlifted in one single day in … ?Operation Solomon?. What were the factors that drove this unprecedented migration of Jews from around the globe to Israel? Many …

This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine … children who lost one parent during childhood, we find a series of striking patterns which show that the relationship is … largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in …

This paper analyzes the effect of family composition, and in particular the number of children, the age gap between the … children has a U -shaped effect on parents' involvement in social networks, with substantial differences between fathers and … on the father's involvement in social networks. The age gap between children has a positive effect on both parents …