final years of schooling among neighbouring children and school mates. We find a clear trend of declining influence of … change in the neighbourhood effect. Motivated by the fact that neighbouring children typically go to the same school, we … estimate school mate correlations for children born in the 1960s. The overall impact of factors shared by children who …

How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of … to a better understanding of children's long run outcomes. This paper uses a large dataset on the male population of … resulting from twin births have negative effects on the IQ of existing children. …

While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education and earnings … earlier born children have higher IQs. Our preferred estimates suggest differences between first-borns and second-borns of … birth order effects occur because later-born children are more affected by family breakdown. …

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is … estimated elasticity of intergenerational transmission of income of approximately .2. …