occupational outcomes, marriage, and fertility that are similar across census waves. Our results indicate that the returns to …The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we …

Children early in the birth order get more parental care than later children. Does this significantly affect their life …

household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that …, even after conditioning on the attitudes of parents and other controls. This trust deficit persists into early adulthood …. Additional analyses point to reduced parental involvement and greater family conflict as potential mechanisms. …

household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that …, even after conditioning on the attitudes of parents and other controls. This trust deficit persists into early adulthood …. Additional analyses point to reduced parental involvement and greater family conflict as potential mechanisms. …

reverting negative gradients in early life health and eventual fertility. These new stylised facts and results suggest the … longterm implications of health policies within family lineages may be quite different to their short term implications …

parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents …We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents … respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on …

instrumental variables estimation instrumenting family size with twin births. Estimation using a unrestricted specification for the … incentives for fertility should account for spillover effects on existing children. … sign of the marginal effects of additional siblings on children’s outcomes, our empirical model allows for an unrestricted …

variables on the relationship between children and parents, family size, and the parents’ socioeconomic background. … children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …

study various outcomes, including parents' labor supply, mental health, marital status, and fertility. We find that having a …%. We also find a significant decrease in long-run fertility. These effects are larger for parents with worse socioeconomic …Childhood disability has enormous impacts on family members. Limited by data, previous literature faces challenges in …

increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an … increase in completed fertility. Second, we find an increase in overall female employment, likely due to the desire to qualify … the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender …