parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …

analyse the effect of an individual’s education level on the timing of first marriage. Controlling for other institutional … factors, cohort effect and social/ family background we find that the higher an individual’s education level, the older they … are when they first marry. We find that the effect of education is much stronger for females than for males. …

, and uses these variables as instruments to estimate returns to education, with the help of a rich set of individual data … two stage method is used to estimate log-wage equations, taking care of education endogeneity, using birth order and the … number of siblings as instruments. The OLS estimates of returns to education are biased downwards, when females are …

Household Panel Study. Mother’s education is found to be a very powerful predictor of their children’s educational attainments … men moderately, but the effects on young women’s education are small. Part, if not all, of this negative effect of living …

. It is shown that the impediments for education created by social factors are similar to a market imperfection, and … publicly provided education may lead to a Pareto improvement. Policies affecting the share of skilled release a dynamic …

percent for males and females, respectively. In addition, we find that the effect of education on crime persists across birth …