investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the … size on children's education. We show that these findings are robust to a number of checks. The effects appear stronger for …

largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in … determining child outcomes, while the education of the surviving parent becomes a stronger factor. Moreover, within the group of … families that lost a parent, this pattern intensifies when a child loses a parent earlier in life - the education of the …

parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child performance. We find no effects on … intermediate outcomes such as mothers' subsequent earnings, child health, parental fertility, divorce rates, or the mothers' mental … health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of time …

education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 …. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …

school entry cut-off give birth at higher age, but total fertility and earnings are unaffected. Being born after the cut …

data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …

While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care … falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …