In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the … suggest some solutions. -- matching ; marriage ; assignment ; assortative matching ; canonical correlation …

sign of the marginal effects of additional siblings on children’s outcomes, our empirical model allows for an unrestricted … relationship between family size and child outcomes. We find that the conclusion in Black, Devereux, and Salvanes (2005) of no … family size effect does not hold after relaxing their linear specification in family size. We find nonzero effects of family …

, followed by a decline after age 12. Ignoring endogeneity of family income and unobserved individual heterogeneity would …