identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …

Testing the tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a family is complicated by the endogeneity of family … size. Using data from the Chinese Population Census, this paper examines the effect of family size on child educational … attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth …

presents new evidence on the child-quantity/child-quality trade-off. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous variation in … presents new evidence on the child-quantity/child-quality trade-off. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous variation in …

maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for … for family-specific endowments and neighbourhood characteristics. Child health is indicated by infant survival and … occur in the year of birth and the year before birth limit the degree to which child health is tied to family circumstance …

In this paper we estimate the impact of parental schooling on child schooling, focus on the problem that children who …

; child outcome …

regard to the child's. Using Portuguese data we conclude that the parents should be viewed as a unit (i.e. as a couple), and …