economic uncertainty. Using various educational measures, we show that the children born during this nativity slump perform … observed personal characteristics. These children are also less likely to have grown up within stable family environment … children. Finally, sibling analysis enables us to reject time of birth effects. …

leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age … effects on sons than daughters. We find that the education effects remain significant even when household income is included …. Moreover, decomposing the income when the child is 16 between a permanent component and shocks to income at age 16 only the …

We explore the link between parental selection and criminality of children in a new context. After the collapse of the … uncertainty. We exploit this natural experiment in a differences-in-differences setup to first estimate that the children from … play important roles in the parental selection-crime of children relationship. Finally, results for siblings support a …

application data across UK universities over a period of 8 years, we investigate how league tables affect prospective students …

deviation in exam grade. Effort in our study increases most for students at and below median ability, resulting in a reduction …

children, could have potentially serious side-effects. As the controversy set in, uptake of the MMR vaccine by more educated … parents decreased significantly faster than that by less educated parents, turning a significant positive education gradient … suggests that our results are not driven by other unrelated trends. Somewhat puzzling, more educated parents also reduced their …