This paper demonstrates the long-term intra-and intergenerational benefits of the
HighScope Perry Preschool Project, which targeted disadvantaged African American …

I provide new evidence of the effects of income on child maltreatment. I exploit a
discontinuity in child-related tax benefits, which results in otherwise-similar families …

About 11% of the Chinese population are rural-urban migrants with a rural hukou that
severely restricts their children's access to urban schools. As a result, 69 million children are …

This research investigates the role of parents in explaining the surprisingly low presence of
women among inventors despite their increase among graduates from science, technology …

This handbook chapter focuses on interactions between the family and culture that have
significant economic implications. We start by documenting the wide range of global …

We examine the degree to which parental gender preferences in the USA have changed
over time. To quantify levels of parental sex preference, we compare the likelihood that …

To date, research on the transition to parenthood and associated changes in relationship
satisfaction (RS) has focused predominantly on mothers with their firstborn. This study …

We tested the prospective associations between coparenting relationship quality and
breastfeeding duration among 164 dual-earner, cisgender, heterosexual couples identifying …

Combining eight years of panel data with an event study approach, this study shows that
rural Chinese women's labor supply falls following the birth of a child. In contrast, men's …

We consider estimating a local average treatment effect given an endogenous binary
treatment and two or more valid binary instruments. We propose a novel limited monotonicity …