Demographic changes in who becomes a parent, how many children parents have, and the
marital statuses of parents and children affect the extent to which parents and adult children …

We show that close geographical proximity to mothers or mothers-in-law has a substantial
positive effect on the labor supply of married women with young children. We argue that the …

We study the migration behavior of displaced workers and find that job displacement
increases regional mobility. We find, however, that noneconomic factors, such as family ties …

This paper estimates the causal long-term consequences of an exposure to war in utero and
during childhood on the risk of obesity and the probability of having a chronic health …

Working-age individuals are under growing pressure to contribute unpaid time to the care of
elderly family members and friends. Existing work has generally found informal care to …

I discuss instrumental variable estimates of the effect of providing unpaid adult care on the
caregivers' probability of being employed, using eight waves of the European Community …

In this paper we provide an overview of the patterns of intergenerational proximity and
coresidence of adult children and their mothers in the US, using data from the National …

This paper investigates long‐term home care utilization in Europe. Data from the first wave
of the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) on formal (nursing care and paid …

This paper examines the long-term direct and spillover effects of large-scale human capital
loss caused by the persecution of Jewish professionals in Nazi Germany. Using region-by …

A common finding in analyses of geographic mobility is a strong association between past
movement and current mobility. We argue that one of the driving forces behind this pattern is …