parental mortality. Results: Based on 7 measures of sex composition, we find no protective effect of sons in either China or … Taiwan. For example, in the 1989 Taiwan sample, the hazard ratio for maternal mortality associated with having an eldest son … is 0.979 (95% CI (0.863, 1.111). In Taiwan, daughters may have been more beneficial than sons in reducing mortality in …

this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health …

this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …

certain health investments, including children's diets. Our results support the notion that traditional gender roles can …

children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

document outcomes among individuals with deceased parents. I focus first on minors and find that about 2 million children in … orphan population in the United States. Relative to children with both parents living, these maternal and paternal orphans … potentially affected by the earnings of deceased parents prior to death and by awareness of benefit eligibility by adult members …

influence the labor supply decisions of adult children …

We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … and exogenous variation in children's astrological characteristics and apply instrumental variables methods. We find a …