effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … lower quality. Using Norwegian register data, we compare outcomes of children of sisters who have first births at different … children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that negative …

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 …

two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies--augmented with a …

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 …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …