The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

the probability of such children attending university at the age of 18; however, when both parents are college or senior … buffer the LBW shock among moderately-LBW children (as compared to very-LBW children) and full term-LBW children (as compared … to preterm-LBW children) …

two births in families with at least two children, to estimate the effect of additional children on parents' labor supply … differences in the ages of children whose birth was caused by the instruments. The estimates imply that the labor supply …

friction we investigate is related to the ownership of children. If parents have no claim on their children's income, then the …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …

. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … 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 …

enrollment among children that parents reported wanting to remain home at baseline. Children that parents want to migrate have … increased enrollment, and parents want more children to migrate … determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

affects her children's health, but is also intrinsically linked to her spouse's labor market status and earnings. Paternal … health appears to be more linked to child schooling outcomes, especially for girls. When both parents are in poor health, the … negative effects on their children are compounded. Additionally, the consequences of poor parental health are enduring. Longer …

wives of men in these groups in the period from 1978 through 1999. Parents' schooling, especially mother's schooling, does …