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

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …

employment may be particularly costly for children in traditional' two-parent families. Finally, the data suggest that paternal …

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

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 …

In this paper we extensively analyze the impact of child health and other family characteristics on the cognitive … achievement of children between the ages of five and nine. We estimate both cross sectional and fixed effects models using data …

We estimate the impact of increases in family size on childhood and adult outcomes using matched mother-child data from … omitted factors we find that families face a substantial quantity-quality trade-off: increases in family size decrease … children of mothers with low AFQT scores …

We examine the extent to which children are exposed to the welfare system through their mother's receipt of benefits … Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we find that children's welfare exposure is substantial. By age 10 over one-third of all … children will have lived in a welfare household; black, non-Hispanic children face a much higher rate of exposure. Simple …