by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …

traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility-as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction …

traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility - as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction …

educational levels of parents are considered key factors in explaining children's educational success. Nevertheless, the … literature has not reached consensus on the causal effects of parents' education on their child's schooling. This is because both … parents' and the child's schooling depend on unobserved heterogeneity. Moreover, the strong positive correlation of the mother …

, children's peers are complementary to financial investment by parents, while the adult role models are substitutes. In contrast … of a convex relation in rural and urban Indonesia. The rural-urban relative mobility curves cross, with the children of … children when the father has more than nine years of schooling. However, the rural children face lower absolute mobility across …

Using German employee data, we find that being raised by two religious parents and having no current religious …