adopted and own birth children to obtain genetically unbiased estimates. Our results provide a much better insight on whether …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

crimes, and focus on mothers who lived in a home where an assault was reported during their pregnancies. We compare these … mothers to women who lived in a home with an assault that took place shortly after the birth. We find that assaults in the 3rd …

children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies … sons ; mothers' behaviour …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … states to inculcate sexual mores. Technology affects culture. -- Children ; church and state ; contraception ; culture …

prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen … (residual) income, as well as assortative mating. Despite very similar trends and levels for mothers in the US and Sweden, we …

prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen … (residual) income, as well as assortative mating. Despite very similar trends and levels for mothers in the US and Sweden, we …

prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen … (residual) income, as well as assortative mating. Despite very similar trends and levels for mothers in the US and Sweden, we …

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 …