children's reports of family or home characteristics rather than information provided by their parents. There is a well …'s occupation, parental education, and the number of books in the family home. Our results suggest that children's reports of their … socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on …

This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive … that is orthogonal to family size, as well as controlling for student and family covariates, we find negative family size … no evidence of a relationship between birth order effects and the level of development, while the effect of family size …