will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

their young children longer, the conflict between women’s dual roles as full-time worker and full-time mother is reduced …

In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of poverty from Polish parents to their children through …. The results show that children's education is strongly related to household structure, parents' education, city size, and … children's educational attainment during the transition process of the 1990s. The relationship between family background and …

Using rich administrative data from Norway, we evaluate a 1998 work-encouraging reform targeted at single parents. We … especially focus on educational performance for children of the involved single mothers. For all children of single mothers, the … younger single mothers, those most likely to be affected by the reform, the grade point average of their children drops …

, especially among older children and children from less educated households. This supports a conjecture that emigration in …We study the relationship between migration and children's education in Tajikistan – one of the poorest and most … remittance-dependent economies in the world. The analysis of a unique three-wave household panel survey reveals that emigration …

, especially among older children and children from less educated households. This supports a conjecture that emigration in …We study the relationship between migration and children's education in Tajikistan – one of the poorest and most … remittance-dependent economies in the world. The analysis of a unique three-wave household panel survey reveals that emigration …

adopted and own birth children to obtain genetically unbiased estimates. Our results provide a much better insight on whether … parents (and policy makers) can actually stimulate the educational attainment of future generations. Controlling for inherited …

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in … substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families. …

This study investigates the role of family structure on cognitive outcomes of children. Using the rich panel data … information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), collected on children and their families … changes in family structure. We find that children who stay-in or move-to non-intact families have lower reading scores than …

and quality of time parents spend with their children, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child's initial … children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and …