parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses' siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases. …

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …, indicating transmission through cultural factors. We find that, when both adoptive parents are overweight, the likelihood of an …

' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to elementary school children's prosociality. In a second step, we present … evidence on a randomly-assigned variation of the social environment, providing children with a mentor for the duration of one … gap in prosociality between low and high SES children. A mediation analysis of the observed treatment effect suggests that …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …

and scholars that the declines in state support have reduced the return to education investment for public sector students … four-year students, and we analyze individuals into their mid-30s. For four-year students, we find that state appropriation … adverse debt outcomes, and these students experience substantial increases in their credit score and in the affluence of the …

representative sample of English children and their parents for the period 1996-2009. We examine the magnitude and change of the …Parental influences on children health related behaviours are argued to be gender assortative (e.g., that maternal … intergenerational transmission is most significant when both parents are obese or overweight, and the effects size increases with child …

Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision- making. For example, in … citizenship or not. We find that the policy caused immigrant parents to (i) send their children to preschool more often; (ii … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enrol their children in preschool …

We study the consequences of mothers' and fathers' job loss for parents, families, and children. Rich Swedish register …, educational and early adult outcomes are not adversely affected by parental job loss. Parents and families are however negatively … affected in terms of parental health, labor market outcomes and separations. Limited effects on family disposable income …

externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …