More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is …

markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children …

birth order effects occur because later-born children are more affected by family breakdown …While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education and earnings … Norway that allows us to precisely measure birth order effects on IQ using both cross-sectional and within-family methods …

While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores …

match adult children to their parents and siblings. In addition, we use exogenous variation in family size induced by the … children's educational attainment. However, when we include indicators for birth order, the effect of family size becomes … order has a significant and large effect on children's education; children born later in the family obtain less education …

How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of … to a better understanding of children's long run outcomes. This paper uses a large dataset on the male population of … Norway and focuses on one family characteristic: the effect of family size on IQ. Because of the endogeneity of family size …

these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic …

, we find that the children of persons affected in utero also have lower cognitive scores, suggesting a persistent …

It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection … employ data from the universe of children born in Florida between 1994 and 2002 and in Denmark between 1990 and 2001, which …, disabled or not. We observe consistentevidence in both locations that the second child in a family is differentially affected …