estimated effects confound birth order with family size. No significant effect of the number of children on educational … number of children are twins at last birth and the sex mix of the first two children. The effect of birth order is identified …, by examining the relation with years of education for different family sizes separately; this avoids the problem that …

We analyse the evolving impact of family background on educational attainment using administrative data on 2 …,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children … be roughly stable across cohorts. Despite a reduction in overall education inequality, we conclude that family background …

endowments. Exploiting only within-family variation in both ensures they are exogenous as well as orthogonal to each other. As … exploits data from 15,019 full siblings in the UK Biobank. We adopt a family-fixed effects strategy combined with instrumental …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin …

This paper studies the effect of multigrading-mixing children of different ages in the same classroom-on students …

less disutility of labor and have relatively lessutility of raising children. Motherhood has a negative effect on the …