While existing research supports that participation in high-school athletics is associated with better education and … public-school district to retrieve an estimate of the causal effect of high-school athletic participation on absenteeism. We … – truancy among active male athletes declines significantly, with the effects larger in earlier grades and for black and …

The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We … propose a new theoretical specification in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as derived demands, given that they … condition peer group and family acceptance, and we introduce unobserved individual effects that can influence both behaviours …

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 use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 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 family. A …

the family tree structure of the PSID to examine two claims found in the literature: whether being early in the birth … family fixed effects estimations, we find that being first-born confers a significant educational advantage that persists …

database together with self-collected survey data. Using family fixed effects models we find significant positive birth order …

stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …