In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade …-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects … schooling progress, the expected college enrollment, grades in school and the assessed health of all children in the family. We …

In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade …-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects … schooling progress, the expected college enrollment, grades in school and the assessed health of all children in the family. We …

in East Germany, the disadvantage for later born children increased. The result for East Germany is surprising because …, during the period of the analysis, the care and education of preschool children was more and more shifted from parents to … state run institutions, where the treatment of children should have been independent of birth order. -- birth order …

delaying school entry for children with developmental impairments. Using data on the compulsory school entrance screening in … factors for a child's probability to receive a school recommendation. Younger children and children with impairments in …

mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. At the end of the first year of the program, children …

In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade …-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects … schooling progress, the expected college enrollment, grades in school and the assessed health of all children in the family. We …