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 … child behavioural problems explain, in part, the association between parental SES and child school grades for mathematics … 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 …

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 …This article examines the effect of first-, second-, and third-level of parental education on the family size. The …

observed personal characteristics. These children are also less likely to have grown up within stable family environment … economic uncertainty. Using various educational measures, we show that the children born during this nativity slump perform … children. Finally, sibling analysis enables us to reject time of birth effects. …