An estimated 94,000 children in Louisiana have a parent who is behind bars, with devastating effects on children and … families. The entire family serves this sentence. Parental incarceration is a growing epidemic. Nationally, one in 28 children … experiences parental incarceration today, compared to one in 125 children in 1985. Black children are particularly affected by …

This paper evaluates how a light-touch parenting program for parents of children below school entry age affects …

Would parents do anything to enable a better future for their children - or only when they are seen to do so? Here we … their decision, whereas when adults or genetically unrelated children observe them, the effect will be smaller. In a large …

In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB …) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children …

-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal … differential impacts between sons and daughters or between younger and older children. Further results suggest that the impact of …

, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating … benefits women because of the public good nature of children. Able to realize Pareto improvements, marriage as an institution …

We develop a theoretical model of mating behavior and parental investment in children under asymmetry in kin …