non-married cohabiting parents. This effect results from a reduced risk of single parenthood among women who gained from …

decreases in children's education and increases in boys' criminal behavior. …

-generation immigrants and second-generation immigrants whose parents arrived shortly before birth. For most outcomes considered, I find that … distinct as often thought. I also use the measure assess whether parents' host country experience before a child's birth … performance of late-arriving first-generation children. …

, striking differences still emerge in the timing of leaving home for adult children. In Southern countries (as Spain, Italy or … Portugal) in 2001 more than 70 percent of young adults between 18 and 34 years of age live with their parents, whereas the …

to gauge its impact on children’s propensity to live without their parents in households headed by relatives or friends … socioeconomic costs of being raised without parents or in a single-headed household, gaining a better understanding of the … collateral damage of heightened enforcement on the families to which these children belong is well warranted …

examine the time that single, cohabiting, and married parents devote to caring for their children. Time spent in market work … evidence that these time allocation decisions differ for cohabiting and married parents, but there is evidence that single …

achieve upward mobility during Maoist China? What then restricted their children’s chances of upward mobility during the …

education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments … through education, but find no evidence that parents reinforce differences in skill endowments. We argue that there is a bias …

Previous studies have found that firstborn children enjoy a distinct advantage over their later- born counterparts in … household-based data which include information on multiple children living in the same families. The paper finds that firstborn … children have higher aspirations, and that these aspirations play a significant role in determining later levels of attainment …