by Bryan Caplan
values and
Behavioral parent training
Birth, benefits of every
Birth control
Boxer Rebellion
“A Boy Named Sue” (Cash)
Brooks, Arthur
Brown, Louise
Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey
Carbon tax
Cash, Johnny
Cash bonuses, for children
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Character, nature vs. nurture and
Childbearing, nature vs. nurture and
Childcare
enjoyment of
outsourcing
reviewing tasks of
technological improvements and
time spent in
Children
activities of
appreciation of parents
effect of upbringing on future of
encouraging independence of
financial benefits of
funding parental retirement and
grading parents’ performance
inflated price of
influence of parents on character of
influence of parents on conscientiousness or agreeableness of
influence of parents on criminal behavior of
influence of parents on education of
influence of parents on family values of
influence of parents on fertility of
influence of parents on happiness of influence of parents on health of
influence of parents on intelligence of
influence of parents on politics of
influence of parents on religion of
influence of parents on sexual initiation of
influence of parents on sexual orientation of
influence of parents on success of
influence of parents on traditionalism/modernism of
influence of parents on traits of
influence of parents on values of
long-term benefits of
mortality of
nonfinancial benefits of
optimum number in family
payments for chores
protecting from secondhand stress
raising with kindness and respect
reasons to have
short-term costs of
sleep and
supervision of
Child safety
improvements in since 1950
kidnapping and
mortality statistics
safety-conscious parenting and
violent crime and
Choices, population and increased
Chores, payment for
Church attendance, parents and children’s
Clinton, Hillary
Cloning
twinning vs.
Colorado Adoption Project
Commercial surrogates
Computers, children’s use of
Conscientiousness, nature vs. nurture and
Consumer Expenditure Survey
Consumerism, having more children and
Cornell University, Reproductive Endocrine Laboratory
Cosby, Bill
Costs
of children in short-term
of reproductive technologies
Council on Bioethics
Criminal behavior, nature vs. nurture and
Customer satisfaction
Daily activities, enjoyment of
Deaths, children’s
causes of
statistics
Department of Justice
Designer babies
Determinism, genetic vs. parental
DeVito, Danny
Direct effects
Discipline
behavioral parent training and
Disease, as cause of children’s deaths
Divorce, nature vs. nurture and
Do I Want to Be a Mom? (Dell & Erem)
Donor eggs
Drinking habits, parental effect on
Drug problems, parental effect on
Dutch Twin Registry
Economist (magazine)
Edison, Thomas
Education, nature vs. nurture and
Educational attainment, parents’ influence on
Educational success, parents’ influence on
Effects
direct vs. indirect
measuring nature and nurture
Egg donation
Egg donors
Ehrlich, Paul
Electronic babysitters
Elite Donors
Environment
nonshared
nurture and
population effects on
shared
unique
Eugenics
Exposure therapy
Fade-out
antisocial behavior and
income and
intelligence and
religion and
Fairfax Cryobank
Falconer’s formula
Family planning
foresight and
global fertility decline
hindsight bias and
Family size
changes in idea of optimum
changes in self-imposed rules and
changes in values and
decline in
foresight and
ideal
increasing own
parental happiness and
personal decisions regarding
reasons for declining
reasons to increase
self-interest and
Family vacations
Family values, nature vs. nurture and
Fathers
children grading performance of
time spent taking care of children
Ferber method
Fertility
effect on environment
foresight and
government policy rewarding increased
nature vs. nurture and
retirement systems and
self-interest and decline in
Fertility drugs
Fertility tourism
Fifties, child safety and
Finnish Twin Cohort Study
First World families, as focus of twin and adoption studies
Foresight
changes in family size and
fertility and
grandchildren and
high
moderate
Free-Range Kids (Skenazy)
Free will, behavioral genetics and
Friedman, David
Friedman, Milton
Friedman, Patri
Frost, Jo
Galinsky, Ellen
Gallup polls
on parental satisfaction
on perception of incidence of crime
Games, supervising content of
Gans, Joshua
Gates, Bill
General Social Survey
on American church-going habits
on happiness of richer parents
on number of siblings and their family size
on parental happiness
Genetic determinism, parental determinism vs.
Genetic engineering
Genetics. See Nature vs. nurture
Genetic screening
Gilbert, Daniel
Girls, parents and sexual initiation of
Global fertility decline
Goldblum, Jeff
Government policies, rewarding fertility
Grades
Graham, Robert
Grandchildren
foresight and
good in-law behavior and increased chances of
government policies favoring
having more children to increase prospect of
rewarding children for grandchildren
Gross National Happiness (Brooks)
Happiness
momentary
of children
of parents
overall
Happiness set point
Harris, Judith
Health, nature vs. nurture and
Height, determination of
High foresight
Hindsight bias
Holt, Bertha
Holt, Harry
Homicide, as cause of children’s deaths
Ideas, progress and new
Incentives
environmental problems and
government, to have more children
Income
average
fertility and increased
nature vs. nurture and
India, commercial surrogacy in
Indirect effects
Individualism, having more children and
Infertility, solutions for See also Reproductive technology
In-law behavior, to encourage grandchildren
Intelligence, nature vs. nurture and
Internet
Introspection
In vitro fertilization (IVF)
genetic screening and
It’s a Bird (Seagle)
IVF. See In vitro fertilization (IVF)
Japan, population and retirement in
Jolie, Angelina
Jurassic Park (film)
Kahneman, Daniel
Khoury, Alfred
Kidnapping, child
Kindness, raising children with
King of the Hill (cartoon)
Kolb, Richard
“Korea and Vietnam” (Kolb)
Korean War
Labor, price of
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (television program)
Leave It to Beaver (television program)
Life expectancy, parental effect on
Life satisfaction, parents and level of
Liu, Hung-Ching
Loehlin, John
Lucas, Robert
Madonna
Marital satisfaction, nature vs. nurture and
Marriage, nature vs. nurture and
Mate selection
Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart
Minnesota Twin Family Registry
Minnesota Twin Family Study
Minnesota Twin Registry
Minnesota Twin Study
Moderate foresight
Modernism, nature vs. nurture and
Money
rewarding children for grandchildren with
using to make parenting easier
See also Income
Mortality statistics, for children
sources
Mothers
children grading performance of
enjoyment of childcare and
time spent taking care of children
The Myth of the Rational Voter (Caplan)
Nanny
Naps
Natalism, privatizing
Natalists
National Center for Health Statistics
National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY)
National Vital Statistics Reports
National Vital Statistics System
Nature
distinguishing from nurture
measuring effects of
See also Nature vs. nurture
Nature-nurture effect sizes
Nature vs. nurture
appreciation and
character and
fade-out and
happiness and
health and
intelligence and
success and
values and
NCVS. See National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
Newsday (newspaper)
Niebuhr, Reinhold
NLSY. See National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY)
Nobel sperm bank
Nonshared environment
Nurture
distinguishing from nature
environment and
measuring effects of
See also Nature vs. nurture; Parenting
The Nurture Assumption (Harris)
Obesity, genetics and
Openness, upbringing and
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Overpopulation
Parental determinism, genetic determinism vs.
Parental leave, paid
Parenting
disagreement over effects of
diverse styles of
happiness and
with kindness and respect
peer pressure and
power of
reality vs. dream of
relaxed
safety-conscious
short-run vs. long-run effects of
using money to make easier
See also Nurture; Parents
Parentonomics (Gans)
Parents
anger management and
bigger families and happiness of
children’s activities and
children’s appreciation of
discipline and
effect of upbringing on children’s future
Elite
exposure therapy and child safety fears
fading effects of
happiness of
illusion of control and
implications of behavioral genetics for
improving life of
improving sleep deprivation and
influence on children’s adult sexual behavior
influence on children’s character
influence on children’s conscientiousness or agreeableness
influence on children’s criminal behavior
influence on children’s education