incidence of single mother families by about 2 percent. …

single mother families across countries and over time. A multinomial logit derived from a random utility approach is …

have at least one child. By contrast, almost no single women have any children. We then explain these three facts, focusing …

care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In …, depression, and parenting stress. Such mothers also reveal more psychological and physical aggression toward their children and …

the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows …-headship on children's outcomes, I use a two-stage least squares strategy that controls for the possible endogeneity of both types … of female-headship. Results indicate that children residing in households headed by married women have stronger schooling …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such …