Previous findings on (fleeting) relative age effects in school suggest that, given innate ability, too few younger and … too many older students attend academic tracks. Using a regression discontinuity design around school-specific admission …

express about their children's school assignment are based on the characteristics of schools, teachers and peers and not on …We combine data from the Amsterdam secondary-school match with register data and survey data to estimate the effects of … not being assigned to one's first-ranked school on academic outcomes and on a wide range of other outcomes. For …

market success. Based on a typology of network positions we locateeach student within the social system of the school class … estimated wage premia and penaltiesdo not appear to be substantially confounded by measures of family and school resources …

explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school … leaving age in the UK. Findings based on data from the National Child Development Study suggest that postponing the school …

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 … different way. Men with brothers earn more and are more likely to get married and have children than men with sisters. Women …

stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …