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 …

impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …

Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically … divorced parents continue to share parental rights and responsibilities through joint custody arrangements. While joint custody … consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic …

This study estimates the causal effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment of individuals in the … long run. Following recent literature we use the presence of twins as an instrumental variable for family size and fixed … effects model for birth order. The results suggest that in Chile there is a negative relationship between family size and …

the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender … their young children longer, the conflict between women’s dual roles as full-time worker and full-time mother is reduced …

the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the … presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio …) induces an increase in the number of children, but a decrease in the quality of children. Second, using the impact of World …

One of the theoretical predictions relating to the family size and birth order effect on child capital is resource …, there are arguments that the assumption of a fixed and narrow flow of resources from parents underpinning the theory may not … always hold. In Botswana, children aged 6-60 months are eligible for monthly food ration provided through the health care …