' fields of study to the observed assortative preferences in their children's choice of major. Comparable to panel models, we … 2011 National Household Survey from Canada, the results show that children's choice of field of study exhibits significant …

potential mechanisms we find that earlier born children receive less quality time from their mothers than later born children … effects; earlier born children stay behind in their human capital development from early childhood to adolescence. Turning to …. In addition, they are breastfed shorter. The estimated birth order effects are largest for children in their teens …

children on mothers' physical condition, as proxied by their weight. Using two independent datasets, I find that, many years …Although the effect of parents on their children has been the focus of much research on health and families, the … influence of children on their parents has not been well studied. In this paper, I examine the effect of the sex composition of …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. -- teenage motherhood … ; education ; fertility ; children ; instrumental variables ; compulsory schooling laws …

death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother’s parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies — augmented with a …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves …

in children such as time, material investments, and childcare services. I estimate the model in a novel dataset from … participation but do not raise significantly skills of children …

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to …