We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, childrenś gender affects not only the …

respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on … parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents … to add to their children's quality by investing in their human capital (or the price effect). Our empirical strategy …

individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on …

This paper studies how the type of education pursued at an early age affects family formation. I focus on a French … fertility for individuals from low socioeconomic backgrounds, particularly women. In the marriage market, the reform changed the … findings highlight that delaying early school tracking has significant consequences for family formation. …

This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit … exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two … complementary data sets, we examine different fertility outcomes over the life cycle. In contrast to evidence for other developed …

This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births.We use … exogenous variation from a mandatory reform of compulsory schooling in West Germany to deal with the endogeneity of schooling …. In contrast to studies for other developed countries, we find a significant negative effect of education on fertility …

the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender … increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an … increase in completed fertility. Second, we find an increase in overall female employment, likely due to the desire to qualify …

The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using the National Longitudinal Study of … graduation, employment, or income for men, relative to women. We do find that father absence is more strongly associated with men …