Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions but identifying their causal … effects is notoriously difficult. Using admissions thresholds that directly affect older but not younger siblings' college … options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile, Sweden and Croatia that older siblings' college and major choices …

We study within-family spillovers in college enrollment to show college-going behavior is transmissible between peers …. Because siblings' test scores are weakly correlated, we exploit college-specific admissions thresholds that directly affect … older but not younger siblings' college options. Older siblings' admissibility substantially increases their own four …

We study the effect of educational attainment on family formation using regression discontinuity designs generated by … set of results using survey data. These suggest that the positive association between men’s education and family formation …

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family …. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender …

births on school grades using sibling fixed effect models which compare individuals with their non-preterm siblings. We test … for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as well as whether family socioeconomic resources and school …