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 …

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 …

having children? This paper, which we believe to be the first of its kind, reports preliminary evidence consistent with that …

increased fertility rate due to higher child mortality and limited access to healthcare services. However, we know much less … fertility by focusing on the UN intervention in Liberia. Combining DHS birth history data with information on road distance to … UN military compounds, we find that women living in the proximity of peacekeepers have lower fertility rates in the …