We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin …

children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children …Studies on the intergenerational transmission of human capital usually assume a one-way spillover from parents to …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … that lower birth weight children are more likely to avail of social insurance programs such as unemployment and sickness … enables us to study how the impact of birth weight on income and education of young adults has changed across cohorts born …

childless women to estimate the causal effect of having children on their career. For this purpose, we use administrative data …