are costly to both former foster youth and the public. We evaluate the effects of placing foster children with extended … family, rather than unrelated caregivers, using individual-level panel data. Our analysis utilizes an instrumental variable … of specifications. We posit that kinship care may better maintain ties between youth and family members that are vital in …

, striking differences still emerge in the timing of leaving home for adult children. In Southern countries (as Spain, Italy or … Portugal) in 2001 more than 70 percent of young adults between 18 and 34 years of age live with their parents, whereas the …

link urban and rural nodes, children have remained less urbanized than adults, and many grow up without coresident parents … children to join adults at migration destination areas. …The disruption of family life is one of the important legacies of South Africa’s colonial and apartheid history …

link urban and rural nodes, children have remained less urbanized than adults, and many grow up without co-resident parents …The disruption of family life is one of the important legacies of South Africa's colonial and apartheid history … the creation of the homelands. Despite the removal of legal restrictions on permanent urban settlement and family co …

-1929 covering birth weight, family characteristics, school grades, sibling identifiers, and outcomes later in life including the …

The interaction between family size and children quality has been a recurring topic in the economics of family. However … additional sibling due to family interactions. On the other hand, I estimate the effect of family size in Colombia on school lag … instruments based on the report of the ideal number of children. The novelty of the instruments lies in that unlike most articles …

across children within the family. Older siblings, especially firstborn males, are more likely to migrate, while having more …This paper examines the causal effects of family size and demographic structure on offspring's international migration … teenagers' and young adults' migration outcomes. We find no empirical support for the hypothesis that high fertility drives …

household size declined. This paper investigates the child birth order and alternative family structure (i.e household) size … to explore the within and between household effect. We find that children of high birth order are likely to fare worse …One of the theoretical predictions relating to the family size and birth order effect on child capital is resource …

negative impact seems to operate by altering bargaining power within the family and the opportunity cost of having children …-marriage family outcomes using a conceptual framework that is widely applicable. Based on two data sets from China, we find beautiful … women have at least 0.43 fewer children than average- or plain-looking women when controlling for other factors. The …