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 …

marriage registry records linking family members, we further analyze the role of family composition and socio-economic status …- and the last-born and their siblings, and by the number of brothers in the family. Birth order differences - particularly … inheritance rules or transmission of occupations to children born earlier in the family. Taken together, our findings suggest that …

relationship between family size and child outcomes. We find that the conclusion in Black, Devereux, and Salvanes (2005) of no … family size effect does not hold after relaxing their linear specification in family size. We find nonzero effects of family … instrumental variables estimation instrumenting family size with twin births. Estimation using a unrestricted specification for the …