We investigate the impact of family co-residence structure and the allocation of major childcare responsibility across …. Moreover, we find that the effect of family environment differs between boys and girls. Girls from multigenerational families … factors as potential operating mechanisms in explaining our findings indicates that the influences of family environment are …

Norway that allows us to precisely measure birth order effects on IQ using both cross-sectional and within-family methods … explains about 3% of the within-family variance of IQ. When we control for birth endowments, the estimated birth order effects … birth order effects occur because later-born children are more affected by family breakdown. …

Norway and focuses on one family characteristic: the effect of family size on IQ. Because of the endogeneity of family size …, we instrument for family size using twin births and sex composition. IV estimates using sex composition as an instrument … show no negative effect of family size; however, IV estimates using twins imply that family size has a negative effect on …

causal effect of family size on children's education. Following common practice, a linear IV estimator has been used …, assuming constant marginal effects of additional children across family sizes. We find that the conclusion of no effect of … family size is an artifact of the linear specification, which masks substantial marginal family size effects. -- Instrumental …

We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US … family earnings, on the other hand, leads to estimates of intergenerational mobility in the Nordic countries which exceed …

non-economic factors such as family ties are very important for the decision to migrate. Workers are less likely to move … if they have family in the region where they already live, and job loss stimulates workers to relocate with parents and …. Furthermore, when looking at long-run family income, we find that the difference between displaced movers and stayers is very …

Based on administrative data from Norway, we examine the extent to which family doctors influence their clients …' propensity to claim sick pay and disability benefits. The analysis is based on exogenous shifts of family doctors occurring when … physicians quit, retire, or for other reasons sell their patient lists to other doctors. Our key finding is that family doctors …

' working hours is amplified through the influence of family peers. Using Norwegian administrative data we study the long …-run influence of the family network on mothers' labour decisions up to seven years post birth. For identification, we exploit … partially overlapping peer groups and assume that a mother interacts with her neighbours and family but not with her family …

Norway and focuses on the effect of birth order on a range of health and health-related behaviors, outcomes not previously …