A substantial and growing fraction of children across Europe and the US live in single parent households. Law practices … are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation … the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational …

the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are …

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …

children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

We study the relationship between a key early intervention policy designed to support families with children up to the … age of four and the rate at which children are taken into social care. The gradual build-up of over 3,600 Sure Start … Children's Centres (SSCC), operated by Local Authorities across England, created large spatial and cohort variation in the …

and services. To reduce child marriage, which has long-run negative effects on the development of children, policymakers …