parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents' knowledge of their children's endowments and about the technology used to …, these results suggest that a higher full family income increases the educational attainment of children, and given full …

, especially among British children. Parental behavior appears to respond to permanent family-specific unobservables and to child … idiosyncratic endowments in a way that suggests that parents have equal concerns, rather than efficiency motives, in allocating … their prenatal inputs across children. Evidence of equal concerns emerges also from the analysis of breastfeeding decisions …