The literature on father absence is frequently criticized for its use of cross-sectional data and
methods that fail to take account of possible omitted variable bias and reverse causality. We …

Fueled by new evidence, there has been renewed interest about the effects of birth order on
human capital accumulation. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain …

This paper presents new evidence showing that parental incarceration increases children's
education. I collect criminal records for 90,000 low-income parents who have been …

We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a non-intact family in
Germany. We find that this experience is associated with worse outcomes according to …

Previous work has found that incarceration (defined as confinement in an adult correctional
facility) has a variety of impacts on the incarcerated individual and their families including …

The transformation of women's lives over the past century is among the most significant and
far-reaching of social and economic phenomena, affecting not only women but also their …

La literatura moderna sobre desarrollo humano señala que cuanto más temprano en la vida
de las personas se invierte en aumentar y equiparar habilidades, mayores las …

We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living
arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a …

Objective To identify the individual and community-level variables associated with the
continuation of education among currently married young adult women in Bangladesh …

Intimate partner violence often includes economic abuse; unfortunately, economic abuse
has not been examined sufficiently in the literature. Using longitudinal data from the Fragile …