Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation …

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

Do parents invest more or less in their high-ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … parents invest more in high-ability children, with a 1 standard deviation increase in child cognitive ability increasing …

children. We find an even steeper happiness decline before the age of 14. Surprisingly, the "environment" domain has no … significant effect on childhood happiness, whilst the children's "school" and "interaction with friends" domains explain over 40 …% of the decline in childhood happiness. The decline in childhood happiness is steepest when the children transition from …