years, marriage has continued to shape the legal and social experiences of parents in a critical aspect of their lives … — sexuality. Encompassing sexual behavior and sexual orientation, the sexuality of parents has curiously drawn little attention in … perceived as “sexually neutral” parenting, an ideal that assumes that parenting can and should occur far removed from parents …

assumptions: there are non-convexities in human capital investments and parents cannot borrow to finance their children …'s education. The model shows that poor and middle-income parents will often find it optimal to channel human capital investments … into a few of their children, thus creating sizable inequalities among siblings. The predictions of the model are …

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …