. Our sample includes more than 12,000 men and 10,000 women, who all left school in 1992, in France. The wages and … educational achievements of individuals, as well as many aspects of family background, including birth order, number of sisters …

We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 wave of the British Household Panel Survey to explore … the degree to which family size and birth order affect a child’s subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a … trade off between child quantity and ‘quality’. Family size might adversely affect the production of child quality within a …

Norway that allows us to precisely measure birth order effects on IQ using both cross-sectional and within-family methods … explains about 3% of the within-family variance of IQ. When we control for birth endowments, the estimated birth order effects … birth order effects occur because later-born children are more affected by family breakdown. …

We propose estimating gender peer effects in school by exploiting within-school variation in gender composition across …

parenthood varies with a number of characteristics of a woman and her family. In particular, we find that lone mothers with a job …

capture her direct family experience. We find that both variables are significant determinants of fertility, even after … controlling for several individual and family-level characteristics. …