More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is … estimated elasticity of intergenerational transmission of income of approximately .2 …

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 …

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 …

difference-in-differences strategy to account for unobserved differences between students with access to SBP and those without … findings. First, the SBP helps students build good eating habits: SBP increases scores on the healthy eating index, reduces the … serum micronutrient deficiencies in vitamin C, vitamin E, and folate, and it increases the probability that children meet …

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

Does the intellectual endowment of children affect parents' fertility choices? The quantity-quality model of fertility … predicts that a positive (negative) shock to child endowment increases (decreases) parental demand for children. We test these … predictions using Israeli data on intellectually gifted and intellectually disabled children. Because families with an exceptional …