their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree …

their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree …

This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive … that is orthogonal to family size, as well as controlling for student and family covariates, we find negative family size … no evidence of a relationship between birth order effects and the level of development, while the effect of family size …

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 …

Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the … evidence that the academic achievement of immigrant children in early adolescence is an accurate predictor of later life … outcomes. We also examine a novel hypothesis that relative academic performance of immigrant children in high school compared …

Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and … measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children … (EITC) over the last two decades. The largest of these changes increased family income by as much as 20%, or approximately …

birth order on children's educational attainment. The endogeneity of family size is an important identification issue in the … of family size. We find that family size has a negative effect on children's education. Using family fixed effects model …Using Chinese Household Income Project survey data from 2013, this paper investigates the effects of family size and …

stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in … later-born children. Taken together, these patterns are consistent with a reputation model of strategic parenting …

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 … paper employs a family fixed- effects estimation strategy and finds a negative and convex relationship between human capital …

children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family …It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than … is correlated with lower educational attainment. In this paper we compare the relationships between family structure and …