environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …

This study argues that parents have a desire for dividing equally between their children, and that this motive applies … to the child or the children with greatest needs. When parents are drawn between these two ambitions, the degree of … income compensation should be stronger in one-child families and we expect the altruism motive to dominate the equal division …

adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …

characteristics. Adoption costs are lower for older children, special needs children, and children of African descent. To our … inform policies regarding the transition of children from foster care to adoptive families and may help to determine …

We study the link between parental selection and children criminality in a new context. After the fall of the Berlin … natural experiment to estimate that the children from these (smaller) cohorts are 40 percent more likely to commit crimes. We …

We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we … offer is that a parentś immune system is refreshed by a childś infections at a time when their own protection starts wearing …, and 2001, we are unable to reject this hypothesis. By contrast, we find in our key result that women with children have a …

reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children. …