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How Do Health Shocks Impact Labor Supply? Gender Matters

July 31, 2020July 23, 2020 admin development, family, gender, labor

In the developing world missing work due to illness often means poor families struggle. Since few jobs offer paid sick

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Academic Outcomes for the Siblings of Teen Moms

December 17, 2019December 17, 2019 admin education, family, teen parents

When a teen mom brings a baby into the home, there might be effects on her younger siblings, but conducting

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Graph showing parents' marriage increases and mom working increases and then decreases when kids start school later
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Redshirting Kids—Delaying Starting School Affects the Entire Family

August 23, 2019 admin children, education, family, marriage, work

Parents often think about their child’s future success when they consider waiting for them to start school, but a child’s

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Ratio of earnings and employment for single mothers vs. single men
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Who Needs a Ring? The 1996 Welfare Reform’s “Independence Effect”

December 19, 2018December 19, 2018 admin family, family finances, poverty, welfare, work

In 1996 federal welfare reform replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, the oldest welfare program for

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Having More Siblings Reduces Education Attainment, but Not by Much

December 17, 2018December 17, 2018 admin children, development, education, family

Two trends are often observed as a country develops: a decline in family size and a rise in education attainment.

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Does Parents’ Access to Family Planning Increase Children’s Opportunities? Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X

November 7, 2018June 2, 2020 admin children, family, family finances, family planning, poverty

For the past several decades, the U.S. government has invested heavily in anti-poverty programs, like the Earned Income Tax Credit

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The Dynamics of Families’ Long-Term Care Arrangements—Who Takes Care of Our Elderly in the Long Run?

May 16, 2018May 16, 2018 admin aging, family, healthcare, wellness

As the population ages, many families face decisions about how to care for elderly relatives. In a recent publication, Bridget

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probability of third child and sex ratio before and after two-child policy
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A Two-Child Limit Imposed on Political Candidates in India—Does It Work?

March 9, 2018March 13, 2018 admin children, family, gender

In India, policy-makers have looked to population control as a means of increasing resources per capita and reducing widespread poverty.

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When Families Want Sons, Do Daughters Get an Education?

March 8, 2018March 8, 2018 admin children, education, family, gender

Gender bias in families is evident in many regions, but the evidence to date does not allow us to fully

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Why Do First-Borns Perform Better? The First Years

November 6, 2017November 13, 2017 admin birth-order, children, family

A myriad of studies find that later-born children have worse educational and labor market outcomes as adults than their older

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