Using data from the American Time Use Survey, I find that a first-born child receives 20-30
more minutes of quality time each day with his or her parent than a second-born child of the …

Parenting daughters, sociologists have shown, increases feminist sympathies. I test the
hypothesis that children, much like neighbors or peers, can influence parental behavior. I …

Having a female first-born child significantly increases the probability that a woman's first
marriage breaks up. Using this exogenous variation, recent work finds that divorce has little …

Background Life history theory and resource dilution models of the family suggest that
siblings may present a threat to healthy development because they compete for resources …

We take a fresh look at an important question in the sociology of gender and family: Do
single fathers “mother”? We add to the theoretical debate by proposing that single fathers …

Individuals invest in their own health, but children rely on parents to act on their behalf,
especially in the case of prenatal health. In this article, we ask, Do parents in the United …

Introduction arriage patterns in the United States have changed substantially in recent
decades. People are marrying later in life than they did 40 years ago and young adults today …

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent
cohorts of West German men in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Living with a partner …

This article surveys the causes, consequences and social adjustments of gender-
imbalanced populations. Though recent studies emphasize the role of medical technology in …

The research on effects of child gender suggests that girls may be allocated
disproportionately to single-mother families. Researchers have argued that this results from …