adverse impact of parental unemployment on children's educational transitions. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio …

Using data from two cohorts of students, we present evidence that children who are relatively old when they enter … pronounced among children from upper-income families. We do not find that the relationship between entrance age and outcomes … reflects a heightened ability to learn or greater physical maturity among older children, the most common interpretations of …

examine the impact of environment on children's outcomes. The behavioral genetics model is the workhorse of this literature … transmission of income and education to their children …

We analyse the evolving impact of family background on educational attainment using administrative data on 2 …,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children … be roughly stable across cohorts. Despite a reduction in overall education inequality, we conclude that family background …

While there is a growing literature on family health spillovers, questions remain about how sibling disability status … Danish administrative data and variation in the onset of type 1 diabetes to compare education outcomes of focal children with … a disabled sibling to outcomes of focal children without a disabled sibling (matched on date of birth of the focal child …

paper employs a family fixed- effects estimation strategy and finds a negative and convex relationship between human capital …This paper analyses the effects of late entry on the human capital of immigrant children, and investigates the channels … parents factor the age of children into their migration decision. Using a sample of siblings from the 2000 U.S. Census, the …

Children born at the end of the academic year have lower educational attainment, on average, than those born at the … scores is likely to be the most appropriate policy response to ensure that children born towards the end of the year are not …