This article employs a couple-level framework to examine how a child's severe illness affects
within-family gender inequality. We study parental labor market responses to a child's …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the
social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families …

Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries
across individuals. However, not all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of …

This study finds that experiencing early childhood health shocks before primary school
exerts negative externalities in the middle school classroom. Students randomly assigned to …

The aging of the population is increasing the demand for adult caregiving. In most of the
world, care for the elderly and sick is provided almost exclusively by families and, within …

While there is a growing literature on family health spillovers, questions remain about how
sibling disability status impacts educational outcomes. As disability is not randomly assigned …

This paper utilizes wealth shocks from winning lottery prizes to examine the effect of
financial resources on fertility. Using administrative data on Taiwanese lottery winners and a …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? We
combine the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data for …

This study examines the gender-specific and enduring impacts of parental health shocks on
adult children's employment in China, where both formal care and health insurance are …

Women bear a disproportionate share of the unpaid labor within a household, which
contributes to gender gaps in life and relationship satisfaction. This paper examines how an …