In the United States, parents prefer a child of each gender, and on many dimensions parents
tend to treat sons and daughters similarly. However, fathers' investments appear to be …

Traditional delinquency theories typically exclude girls and examine economic
marginalization as the primary risk factor for boys. More recent mainstream theories expand …

This article develops a unified framework, based on Rossi's factorial survey method, for
studying positive beliefs and normative judgments. The framework enables estimation of …

This study uses exogenous variation in sibling sex composition to estimate the causal effect
of sibship size on boys' probabilities of private school attendance and grade retention. Using …

It has been argued that a society's gender system may influence parents' sex preferences for
children. If this is true, one should expect to find no evidence of such preferences in …

How much can late schooling investments close racial and ethnic skill gaps? We investigate
this question by exploiting the large differences in completed schooling that arise among …

This article studies the determinants of partnership dissolution and focuses on the role of
child support. We exploit the variation in child support liabilities and entitlements driven, in …

Group differences in educational outcomes, and by inference in learning abilities and
intelligence, are hot-button topics, and they should be, as long as the heat they are …

We estimate the effects of having a child in poor health on the mother's receipt of Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and public …

Father-daughter relationships should receive more attention in family studies courses. A
review of the literature shows that fathers have a lifelong impact on their daughters, yet …