We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a … administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm the findings in the previous literature that children who are slightly below the … spillovers on all our measures of academic achievement. Our estimates suggest that siblings of focal children who were slightly …

und Kompetenzen auch im Schulalter und im Erwerbsleben ist. Für benachteiligte Kinder scheint somit die …

well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk (MARS), an epidemiological …

during childhood using data from a longitudinal study, the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, starting at birth. Our work … characteristics of children. Third, we examine the skill development for girls and boys separately, as well as for children who were …

large-scale physical destruction on the educational attainment, health status and labor market outcomes of German children … school-age during WWII. First, these children had 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood, with those in the … most hard-hit cities completing 1.2 fewer years. Second, these children were about half inches (one centimeter) shorter and …

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 …