adolescents, favoring earlier-born children within household in academic achievement and cognitive skill measures. We highlight … harsh parenting as a novel channel of birth order effects, in which earlier-born children are less likely to be physically … punished by their parents. Focusing on son preference as a potential mechanism generating birth order effects, our tests show …

The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …

The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …

The strong link between parental socioeconomic status (SES) and children's success in school is well established … and German between the ages of 9 and 10. We found that parents with a low SES are more likely to be inconsistent in their … parenting and to use psychological control with their children more often, these two factors being linked to child behavioural …

indicate that education of both male and female are negatively related to family size. In case where both parents are educated …, they have more preference for small family compared to single educated parents. It also indicates the male dominance in …

We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed … parental unemployment. We find that children with unemployed parents are 17% more likely to be hospitalized than other children …. To this end we combine Swedish hospitalization data for 1992-2007 for children 3-18 years of age with register data on …

, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …