We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and … low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children … family size with maternal education and age. An unintuitive feature of our finding is that we identify a positive bias of OLS …

We study the effect of the size of the welfare state on family outcomes in OECD member countries. Exploiting exogenous … divorce rates with a quantitatively stronger effect on the marriage rate. We conclude that the welfare state supports family … organization of the family. …

Recent empirical work questions the negative relationship between family size and children’s attainments proposed by … theoretical work and supported by a large empirical literature. We use twin births as an exogenous source of variation in family … negative impact of family size on grades in compulsory and secondary school. …

of higher SES, however we do find some evidence of a larger reduction in family size for girls relative to boys. We also …

health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a children's home, in a foster family, or having suffered a period of hunger …