personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use … progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining …

Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school … administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks …, on achievement. Identification comes from siblings observed in the same year. I find that family shocks are at least as …

personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use … progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining …

individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …

This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life … and family expectations help explain human capital choices …

Human capital investments at an early age appear crucial for individual outcomes. Family size might affect these … limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy - even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children … family size. In contrast with the results from other developed countries, we find a significant negative effect of family …

individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …