Scholars have long looked to family composition to understand child well-being. The study of family instability, or the … into account the dynamic nature of contemporary family organization and considers its implications for children … family instability and highlight the emergence of national data to measure it. We then review the perspective that guides …

consequences of such family planning programs almost never assess their long-run consequences, such as on labor supply, savings, or … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider … independent of the reproductive preferences of parents or unobserved constraints that might influence family life cycle behaviors …

. Both issues are analyzed within the context of a formal model of family labor supply, in which returns to schooling accrue … altruism was weak may have eliminated much of the apparent increase in family income due to higher child earnings. We end with …