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 … Swedish compulsory schooling reform in the 1950s and 1960s, we address this question by studying the causal effect of children …

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 …

transfers. For this purpose, we use unique data on children conceived through sperm and egg donation in IVF treatments in … nurture interpretation. Once we take account of genes, we find that only the education of mothers matters: the association … between mother's education and child test scores is significant and large, whereas the association between father's education …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …

-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program …

education on son's outcomes. We use data from the Swedish enlistment register on the entire population of males and focus on … and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong … effects on father's education as on mother's education, we find little evidence that paternal education improves son …