.4, 95% CL 1.6-3.4) as prevalent among children with same-sex parents than in the general population, after controlling for …. ADHD risk with same-sex parents was reduced among adopted children (OR 0.54 95% CL .27-1.1), null in the presence of parent … should include resources to bolster anti-victimization skills, particularly for children with same-sex parents. Results …

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our …

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our …

to gauge its impact on children's propensity to live without their parents in households headed by relatives or friends … socioeconomic costs of being raised without parents or in a single-headed household, gaining a better understanding of the … collateral damage of heightened enforcement on the families to which these children belong is well warranted. …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the …, leading to a de-stigmatization of sex. As contraception has become more effective there is less need for parents, churches and …

later-born children. Taken together, these patterns are consistent with a reputation model of strategic parenting. …. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter …

This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life … and family expectations help explain human capital choices. …

Children adopted from abroad are an immigrant group about which little is known. According to the U.S. Census more than … one and a half million children living in the U.S. are adopted, with fifteen percent of them born abroad. In fact more … mostly white, wealthy, and well educated (Kossoudji, 2008). What are the characteristics of children who are adopted from …

---rather than transitory time and budget shocks---may be responsible. A separate design using parents of stillborn children to …We use administrative data from Washington State to perform a large-scale analysis of the impact of family formation on … spike at birth. These effects are concentrated among first-time parents, suggesting that a permanent change in preferences …