Children early in the birth order get more parental care than later children. Does this significantly affect their life …

This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools … is measured by the school's average achievement test score at age 12. Our results indicate that children in high …

In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from …

In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from …

own consumption and children's wellbeing, estimation is complicated by endowment heterogeneity and by the fact that … parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation …, these results suggest that a higher full family income increases the educational attainment of children, and given full …

In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …