impact of giving parents objective information about children's academic achievement. Releasing test scores leads to more … children receiving unexpectedly "bad" test scores who alter their perceptions. Learning that a child scores above the national …

older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. -- Childcare ; Labor … supply ; Cognitive skills ; Family Policy ; Germany …

determined. Also, there is no evidence that birth order effects occur because later-born children are more affected by family …While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education and earnings … on IQ, and our results suggest that earlier born children have higher IQs. Our preferred estimates suggest differences …

older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members …

How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of … to a better understanding of children's long run outcomes. This paper uses a large dataset on the male population of … Norway and focuses on one family characteristic: the effect of family size on IQ. Because of the endogeneity of family size …

While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education and earnings … Norway and focuses on the effect of birth order and family size on IQ, an outcome not previously available in datasets of … earlier born children have higher IQs …

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of … to a better understanding of children's long run outcomes. This paper uses a large dataset on the male population of … Norway and focuses on one family characteristic: the effect of family size on IQ. Because of the endogeneity of family size …

birth order effects occur because later-born children are more affected by family breakdown …While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education and earnings … Norway that allows us to precisely measure birth order effects on IQ using both cross-sectional and within-family methods …