We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …

Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of … affect family formation through human capital accumulation, but also through changing the duration of earlier life phases …

Exogenous variation in fertility from parental preferences for sex-mix among their children is used to identify the … causal effect of family size on several measures associated with either the allocation of resources towards children within … the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative …

We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is …

We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is …