We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …

We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is …

We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is …

provide suggestive evidence that different selection into fertility drives the opposite counter-cyclical results found in …

for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as well as whether family socioeconomic resources and school … effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of … gestation, i.e. born at least 10 weeks earlier). Children born moderately preterm (i.e. born up to 5 weeks early) suffer no ill …

transfers. For this purpose, we use unique data on children conceived through sperm and egg donation in IVF treatments in …