More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is … estimated elasticity of intergenerational transmission of income of approximately .2 …

of children from poorer families …

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …

, we find that the children of persons affected in utero also have lower cognitive scores, suggesting a persistent …

using scores from IQ tests taken outside of school, at the time of military enrolment, and measured when students are around …

their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this imply that policies …

While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education and earnings … earlier born children have higher IQs. Our preferred estimates suggest differences between first-borns and second-borns of … birth order effects occur because later-born children are more affected by family breakdown …

While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores …

two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies--augmented with a …