The present paper investigates how parents responsible for child maintenance payments have re sponded to changes in the …-2013 and applying individual FE-IV models. Results for parents younger than 50 years old show that a e10 increase in monthly … cohabiting with a new partner or on hours spent with children entitled to child support. There is only weak evidence of a …

reverting negative gradients in early life health and eventual fertility. These new stylised facts and results suggest the … longterm implications of health policies within family lineages may be quite different to their short term implications …

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I … UK (1994-2001). The results highlight spurious negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can …

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … endogeneity problem, we use a unique survey on households with twin children and a comparison group of non-twin households. The … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children … in balancing family and work than parental leave payments. The welfare analysis shows that the introduction of subsidies …