limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy - even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children …Human capital investments at an early age appear crucial for individual outcomes. Family size might affect these … investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the …

limited evidence of how having twins influences women's post-birth careers. We investigate this, leveraging a single embryo … health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …

of twin birth. We investigate the extent to which having twins hampers women's careers after birth. To do this, we … and an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first comprehensive evaluation of SET. This is relevant given the …

Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the … importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correlation in socioeconomic outcomes, varies across … sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings across fine-grained groups defined by parental socioeconomic status …

the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender … increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an … increase in completed fertility. Second, we find an increase in overall female employment, likely due to the desire to qualify …

status in which women raise their children and the family context in which children are raised. We refer to family context as … inequality of opportunities in family change. Second, we focus on the implications of family forms on children's school …This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin …

The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using the National Longitudinal Study of … graduation, employment, or income for men, relative to women. We do find that father absence is more strongly associated with men …

analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative … Five. We found no meaningful causal effects of the gender of the next younger sibling, and no associations with the gender … subsamples, our results suggest that siblings' gender does not systematically affect personality. …

analysis of the effects of siblings’ gender on adults’ personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative … Five. We found no meaningful causal effects of the gender of the next younger sibling, and no associations with the gender … subsamples, our results suggest that siblings’ gender does not systematically affect personality. …