We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is …

Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school … administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks …, on achievement. Identification comes from siblings observed in the same year. I find that family shocks are at least as …

One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However … is transferred genetically to children. This paper considers empirical strategies that control for both observed and … unobserved parental ability. In the end, family income still has a significant effect, which must therefore be causative. It …

in family size or the sex composition of the first two children as an instrument for family size with mixed results. We …Social scientists theorize that the inverse relationship between socio-economic status and family size represents a … trade-off between the quality and quantity of children. Evaluating this hypothesis empirically requires addressing the …

limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy - even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children …Human capital investments at an early age appear crucial for individual outcomes. Family size might affect these … investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the …

This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive … that is orthogonal to family size, as well as controlling for student and family covariates, we find negative family size … no evidence of a relationship between birth order effects and the level of development, while the effect of family size …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …

their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree …

individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …

When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … changes to the family's budget constraint on parents' working hours. Labor supply is theoretically expected to increase for … parents who used to spend time taking care of their children, but to decrease for fulltime working parents because of an …