This paper models the probability of 15-year-old children missing school or being late. The paper sets out to uncover … the effects of family background and birth order on attendance. Looking at birth order effects allows one to test Sulloway …

We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non …-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common … unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using …