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 … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …

, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education using a recent large administrative dataset of Italian graduates obtained from … sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …

, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education using a recent large administrative dataset of Italian graduates obtained from … sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …

in the parental wage gap (PWG)—defined as the relative difference in potential wages of mothers and fathers—on children … monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes …’s socio-emotional skills. I leverage administrative and survey data from Germany to create exogenous between-sibling variation …

children's socio-emotional skills. I leverage administrative and survey data from Germany to create exogenous between … monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes … in the parental wage gap (PWG) - defined as the relative difference in potential wages of mothers and fathers - on …

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

expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …

expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …

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 … siblings and own parental education. We find that boys with sisters have worse employment prospects than boys with no sisters …

Elisabeth Grewenig prepared this study while she was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo … Munich. It consists of five distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of human capital formation and education …