parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents …We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents … respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on …

for children's marriage. This paper investigates how a demographic factor - a large number of surplus men in the marriage … ratios among children and intense smoking among fathers. Considering worsening sex ratios and highly competitive marriage …

acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how educational investments by parents may respond to children’s non … for differences between their children, investing more in a child who exhibits greater non-cognitive deficits, while less … associated with the narrowing of non-cognitive deficits over time for children of more educated mothers, while there is no …

range, with a focus on gender-specific parental responses to this negative shock. Using data from a nationally … with brothers. Gender-biased human capital investment by families tends to amplify the harmful effects for girls, while …

direct effect. This is true for the full sample of children, for boys and girls and for children in households whose mother …

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …