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

children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a … Swedish compulsory schooling reform in the 1950s and 1960s, we address this question by studying the causal effect of children …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children …

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 … different way. Men with brothers earn more and are more likely to get married and have children than men with sisters. Women …