We investigate the short-term impact of out-of-home care on child health, schooling and juvenile crime. Using an event … increasing crime rates before placement. After placement, we find a decrease in hospitalizations and an improvement in schooling …

victimization surveys and compares the role of individual and family characteristics for five forms of childhood violence, including …

We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non …-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common … unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using …

consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic …

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters -- a first son increases fathers' work hours by …) relative to men who remain with male children. -- child gender ; fatherhood ; labor supply ; family …

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 …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …