The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …

attenuated. Nevertheless, we do find that children who share the same birth order and gender as their parents attain slightly … generation influences the educational attainment of their children. To address this question we use Swedish population data on … and exploit information on twin births in the parents generation. Relative to having a first-born mother, having a second …

A growing literature points to children’s influence on parents’ behavior, including parental investments in children … Longitudinal Survey of Parents and Children (N=7,738), we construct polygenic scores for educational attainment and regress … status with college-educated parents responding less to children’s genetic propensity towards educational success than non …

mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …

Washington (2008) finds that, controlling for total number of children, each additional daughter makes a member of …