a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target … child effect size. The effects are particularly pronounced in families where one of the children is disabled, for boys, and …

with the educational outcomes of children. As fertility declines, children's grade attainment rises, but their school … education. Rising women's education predicts declining fertility and rising children's grade attainment, but it is less …Sub-Saharan Africa exhibits higher fertility and lower education than other world regions. Economic and demographic …

The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …

number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint … determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is … plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV …

surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …

educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated vis-à-vis the college educated. Additionally …. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married female labor-force participation is developed …

find that the higher probability of divorce and the changes in wage structure faced by the 1955 cohort are each able to …