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 …

The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …

attenuated. Nevertheless, we do find that children who share the same birth order and gender as their parents attain slightly … generation influences the educational attainment of their children. To address this question we use Swedish population data on … and exploit information on twin births in the parents generation. Relative to having a first-born mother, having a second …

occupational prestige is explained almost entirely by shared education, and sibling resemblance in family income is explained … other socioeconomic outcomes. Second, across the life course, siblings converge in earnings and income and maintain stable … earnings and income than nonblack siblings overall, but black siblings dramatically converge in income across the life course …

A growing literature points to children’s influence on parents’ behavior, including parental investments in children … Longitudinal Survey of Parents and Children (N=7,738), we construct polygenic scores for educational attainment and regress … status with college-educated parents responding less to children’s genetic propensity towards educational success than non …

adulthood. The program led to a gradual increase in university education of the high school treated students, reaching a gain of …

schooling in Israeli kibbutzim. This pay reform, which induced kibbutz students to improve their academic achievements during … high school, spilled over to non-kibbutz members who attended schools with these kibbutz students. In the short run, peers … of kibbutz students improved their high school outcomes and shifted to courses with higher financial returns. In the …

ability distribution drive the impact of peer quality on students‟ achievements. To do so, we use census data for four cohorts … of pupils taking their age-14 national tests, and measure students‟ ability by their prior achievements at age-11. We …

number of children, better knowledge and higher probability of using contraceptives, recognition that family size can … compromise children quality, larger role for women in family decision making, less religiosity, and positive attitude towards …

parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …