adult children leave the parental nest. This study aims to shed light on these issues using longitudinal labour force data … and retirement policies for older mothers during those critical years when adult children leave the parental nest. …

data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in …

cognitive development of lower socioeconomic status children who reached maturity in the mid-20th century …

We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States …

There is an extensive theoretical literature identifying the negative effects of the number of children on the outcomes … address the endogeneity of fertility decisions, I use two natural experiments that exogenously increase the number of children …--parity-specific twin births and the gender composition of the first two children. My results provide suggestive evidence that an increase …

of children. The detrimental effects of alcohol exposure in utero are well documented, and therefore identifying …