This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life … earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive … and family expectations help explain human capital choices. …

within the family home. However, we find mixed impacts on the gaps in non-cognitive development. …

, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We …

for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as well as whether family socioeconomic resources and school …

This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life … earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive … and family expectations help explain human capital choices …

of time-varying family factors for child achievement and time use. Specifically, I take a model of academic achievement … commonly used in the test score literature, and I augment it to include a family-year effect. Identification comes from the … effects reveal that annual family innovations, relative to what was expected based on the previous year, are more important …