It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection … employ data from the universe of children born in Florida between 1994 and 2002 and in Denmark between 1990 and 2001, which …evidence in both locations that the second child in a family is differentially affected when the third child is …

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is …

markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children …

The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct … substantial fraction of the closing of the gender wage gap. Our evidence suggests that these task changes are driven, at least in …

How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of … to a better understanding of children's long run outcomes. This paper uses a large dataset on the male population of … Norway and focuses on one family characteristic: the effect of family size on IQ. Because of the endogeneity of family size …

birth order effects occur because later-born children are more affected by family breakdown …While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education and earnings … Norway that allows us to precisely measure birth order effects on IQ using both cross-sectional and within-family methods …

match adult children to their parents and siblings. In addition, we use exogenous variation in family size induced by the … children's educational attainment. However, when we include indicators for birth order, the effect of family size becomes … order has a significant and large effect on children's education; children born later in the family obtain less education …

While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores …