We study the intergenerational effects of parents' education on their children's educational outcomes. The endogeneity … Parents and Children – a rich cohort dataset of children born in the early 1990s in Avon, England – allows us to examine the ….We find that increasing parental education has a positive causal effect on children's outcomes that is evident at age 4 and …

stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in … later-born children. Taken together, these patterns are consistent with a reputation model of strategic parenting …

Immigrant children in the US tend to perform worse in reading, mathematics, and science compared to native children … linked to age at arrival, and that migrant children arrive at different ages from different countries of origin. In … particular, I instrument English proficiency by comparing children from English-speaking countries to children from non …

We model schooling as a sequential process and examine why some children are left behind. We focus on the factors that …

economic uncertainty. Using various educational measures, we show that the children born during this nativity slump perform … observed personal characteristics. These children are also less likely to have grown up within stable family environment … children. Finally, sibling analysis enables us to reject time of birth effects …

math) and does not vanish when children grow up to age 10. Conventional estimates are instead smaller because they are …