order has a significant and large effect on children's education; children born later in the family obtain less education … 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 …

workers with higher average education are also more likely to invest in formal training and to train a higher proportion of …

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

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 … resulting from twin births have negative effects on the IQ of existing children …

While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education and earnings … earlier born children have higher IQs. Our preferred estimates suggest differences between first-borns and second-borns of … birth order effects occur because later-born children are more affected by family breakdown …

as height, IQ, earnings, and education are significant and similar in magnitude to OLS estimates. Our estimates suggest … of children from poorer families …

While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores … to be overweight, to be obese, and to have high blood pressure and high triglycerides. So, unlike education or earnings … unaffected by conditioning on education and earnings, suggesting that these are not the only important pathways to health …

IQ scores, education, earnings, and adult height, as well as whether these effects persist into the next generation. We … scores of men aged 18. Moreover, radiation exposure leads to declines in education attainment, high school completion, and …, we find that the children of persons affected in utero also have lower cognitive scores, suggesting a persistent …

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 …

occupational sorting; first-born children are more likely to be managers, while later-born children are more likely to be self …-employed. We also find that earlier born children are more likely to be in occupations that require leadership ability, social … evidence of lower parental human capital investments in later-born children …