This study estimates the causal effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment of individuals in the … long run. Following recent literature we use the presence of twins as an instrumental variable for family size and fixed … effects model for birth order. The results suggest that in Chile there is a negative relationship between family size and …

We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 wave of the British Household Panel Survey to explore … the degree to which family size and birth order affect a child’s subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a … trade off between child quantity and ‘quality’. Family size might adversely affect the production of child quality within a …

, by examining the relation with years of education for different family sizes separately; this avoids the problem that … estimated effects confound birth order with family size. No significant effect of the number of children on educational …

Norway that allows us to precisely measure birth order effects on IQ using both cross-sectional and within-family methods … explains about 3% of the within-family variance of IQ. When we control for birth endowments, the estimated birth order effects … birth order effects occur because later-born children are more affected by family breakdown. …

of school-age Egyptian children. We use multivariate analysis to simultaneously examine three different schooling …

This paper examines the effects of birth order on the child labor incidence and school attendance of Brazilian children … to afford to send their earlier born children to school, but may be able to send their later-born children due to the …, male first-born children are less likely to attend school than their later born siblings and that male last-born children …

postponement being virtually universal. Almost everywhere the two-child family became dominant. Proportions of childless women and …