by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …

-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program …

children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children … we restrict the sample to low-income and low-educated parents. …

this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on …

transfers. For this purpose, we use unique data on children conceived through sperm and egg donation in IVF treatments in …

We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons …. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved … income elasticity of 0.276, while our twin-based intergenerational income elasticity is 0.12. This is close to the estimate …

treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …

as much as father's schooling for children's schooling. We also estimate the effect of parents' schooling separately by …Behrman and Rosenzweig (2002) used data on a small sample of MZ (monozygotic, identical) twin parents and their … children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for children's schooling in the U.S. Recent …