become mothers and of women eventually attaining a completed fertility of zero. We document that these groups' satisfaction …

Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …

parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child perforÿ­mance. We find no effects on … intermediate outcomes such as mothers' subsequent earnÿ­ings, child health, parental fertility, divorce rates, or the mothers …' mental health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of …

years immediately after birth. This study analyzes whether the across-cohort patterns in the black-white education and …-of-test taking. With Census data, we find: i) a significant narrowing across the same cohorts in education gaps driven primarily by a … gains is greater than can be explained by only the black gains in education and test scores for reasonable estimates of the …