connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to …

reduction in family income. After carefully examining the compatibility of the parental divorce effect and parental job …

and state-dependent private schools in Catalonia (Spain) are more reluctant to interact with single parents than with … heterosexual couples. We conduct a field experiment during the children's pre-registration period. We create three types of … fictitious families (heterosexual couple, single mother, and single father) and send e-mails to schools in which the family …

educational attainment of the next generation were more severe for children with nontertiary-educated parents than those with … tertiary-educated parents, implying that the recession aggravated the pattern of societal inequality in Finland. Importantly …

, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on outcomes for the children concerned. There are good reasons for … thinking that CS could leverage better outcomes than other forms of income support and, using a sample of dependent children in …

We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non …-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common … unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using …

Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically … divorced parents continue to share parental rights and responsibilities through joint custody arrangements. While joint custody … consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic …

) relative to men who remain with male children. -- child gender ; fatherhood ; labor supply ; family …We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters -- a first son increases fathers' work hours by …

This study estimates the causal effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment of individuals in the … long run. Following recent literature we use the presence of twins as an instrumental variable for family size and fixed … effects model for birth order. The results suggest that in Chile there is a negative relationship between family size and …