sign of the marginal effects of additional siblings on children’s outcomes, our empirical model allows for an unrestricted … size in ordinary least squares estimation with controls for confounding characteristics like birth order and in … instrumental variables estimation instrumenting family size with twin births. Estimation using a unrestricted specification for the …

Single mothers often experience precarious financial conditions. However, it is not fully understood to what extent … based on a sample of 626 separated and 5,525 non-separated mothers drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984 …-2018, we disentangle the roles of causation and selection for separated mothers' individual earnings as a measure of economic …

abuse by the children's fathers. The more persistent decline is driven by women who leave the relationship after the birth … reduction in hospital visits or selection in seeking medical care, mothers' added value as the main nurturer, or mothers' drop …