parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …

marriage. We consider agents with idiosyn- cratic preferences for marriage that may be correlated with education, and we allow … the education levels of spouses to interact in producing joint surplus. Using US data on marriages of individuals born … between 1943 and 1972, we show that the preference for assortative matching by education has significantly increased for the …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …

performance is nonlinear. The evidence supports the idea that progressive education promotes social capital. …

percent for males and females, respectively. In addition, we find that the effect of education on crime persists across birth …

achievements are wasted as children fail to build upon their parents’ achievements. Policies affecting the education system and the …

unemployment rates. It may be the case that this locus is steep enough to generate increasing returns to education. This may lead … to multiple equilibria: a high-education equilibrium may coexist with a low-education equilibrium. In the former, the … Pareto-ranked, but the latter is preferred to the former by workers, while `savers' prefer the high-education equilibrium. …