The present paper investigates how parents responsible for child maintenance payments have re sponded to changes in the …-2013 and applying individual FE-IV models. Results for parents younger than 50 years old show that a e10 increase in monthly … cohabiting with a new partner or on hours spent with children entitled to child support. There is only weak evidence of a …

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I … UK (1994-2001). The results highlight spurious negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can …

adolescents, favoring earlier-born children within household in academic achievement and cognitive skill measures. We highlight … harsh parenting as a novel channel of birth order effects, in which earlier-born children are less likely to be physically … punished by their parents. Focusing on son preference as a potential mechanism generating birth order effects, our tests show …

health of existing children. We conclude that the effects on health are not severely biased; however, the large negative … birth order effects are due to differential parental investment because parents’ time and resources are limited. …

test for reverse causality by estimating fertility responses to the health of existing children. We conclude that the … investment because parents' time and resources are limited. …

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …

Parental sex preferences for children have been documented in many native populations, but much less evidence is … available on immigrants’ preferences for the sex of their children. Using high quality longitudinal register data from Norway, a … previous children born. Results show that there is an overall preference for at least one child of each sex also among …