inequality and marriage patterns at the county level in nineteenth-century Prussia. Formally the landed elite could have inuenced … not only the labor relations with the peasants but also their marriage decisions. Using cross-sectional as well as panel … analysis we find no evidence that noble landowners directly affected marriage rates. Instead we find a robust negative …

rationalize the evidence and unify the treatment effect and family influence literatures. The evidence on the empirical and policy … features of successful families and interventions to shape skills at all stages of childhood. The next wave of family studies …