, suggesting that father absence does not play a major role in determining children's educational outcomes. Instead, these results …

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 … suggest that policy efforts to keep separated parents geographically closer together for the sake of the children may, in fact …

variables on the relationship between children and parents, family size, and the parents’ socioeconomic background. … children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …

This paper documents some distinct and surprising patterns of specialization among new parents in the NLSY79. Child … parents with less than a high school education. Estimates from the recent American Time Use Survey are generally consistent … with the NLSY79 findings, and indicate that highly-educated parents devote more childcare time to young sons. The labor …

regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … household behavior have failed to account for the differential behavior of parents with respect to skill formation of their … children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education …

children of lesbian parents as those whose biological mother was a registered same-sex partner no later than six months after … whole period. We find that boys and girls with lesbian parents had 2.4 percent lower birth weight than other children, a … uses a small sample so precision is low. The point estimates show that boys with lesbian parents outperform other children …

order, health at birth and in childhood, and parental health investment. High-quality administrative data on children born … in Austria between 1984 and 2015 allow us to exploit within-family variation in birth order to account for confounding … familylevel factors. In a sample of families with two to four children, we find statistically significant and quantitatively …

The present paper investigates how parents responsible for child maintenance payments have re sponded to changes in the …-2013 and applying individual FE-IV models. Results for parents younger than 50 years old show that a e10 increase in monthly … cohabiting with a new partner or on hours spent with children entitled to child support. There is only weak evidence of a …

order, health at birth and in childhood, and parental health investment. High-quality administrative data on children born … in Austria between 1984 and 2015 allow us to exploit within-family variation in birth order to account for confounding … familylevel factors. In a sample of families with two to four children, we find statistically significant and quantitatively …