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 …

Research on divorce during the past decade has focused on a range of topics, including the
predictors of divorce, associations between divorce and the well‐being of children and …

The authors used child fixed effects models to estimate the effects of parental divorce and
death on a variety of outcomes using 2 large national data sets:(a) the Early Childhood …

Previous research has documented that children who do not live with both biological parents
fare somewhat worse on a variety of outcomes than those who do. In this article, which is the …

In this article, I argue that the trends associated with the second demographic transition are
following two trajectories and leading to greater disparities in children's resources. Whereas …

We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel
Swedish register data. In particular, we focus on the relationship between grandparents' …

The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives
make consumption, work and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on …

This article adds to the growing literature describing correlations between children's
educational outcomes and family structure. Popular discussions have focused on the …

Although the United States has the highest divorce rate of any Western nation, divorce rates
have been increasing in almost all European countries. In this review, we compare studies …

Girls growing up in homes without their biological fathers tend to go through puberty earlier
than their peers. Whereas evolutionary theories of socialization propose that this relation is …