The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …

We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish … Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …

We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish … Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …

We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish … Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility … outcomes ; family structure …

Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using … a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target …

It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection … employ data from the universe of children born in Florida between 1994 and 2002 and in Denmark between 1990 and 2001, which …, disabled or not. We observe consistentevidence in both locations that the second child in a family is differentially affected …

It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection … employ data from the universe of children born in Florida between 1994 and 2002 and in Denmark between 1990 and 2001, which …, disabled or not. We observe consistent evidence in both locations that the second child in a family is differentially affected …