adults and children. Using microdata from 33 African countries, this paper documents the co-evolution of adult education … with the educational outcomes of children. As fertility declines, children's grade attainment rises, but their school … education. Rising women's education predicts declining fertility and rising children's grade attainment, but it is less …

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 …

their young children longer, the conflict between women’s dual roles as full-time worker and full-time mother is reduced …

economic uncertainty. Using various educational measures, we show that the children born during this nativity slump perform … observed personal characteristics. These children are also less likely to have grown up within stable family environment … children. Finally, sibling analysis enables us to reject time of birth effects. …

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 …

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 …

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