timing. In doing so, we exploit the fact that parents do not like to have children born on the “inauspicious” dates of …

indirect effect of returns to human capital on parents' preferences for sons and the resulting demand for children and … education. We assume that parents maximize the full income of their children and that males have an additional income … that parents who have daughters first have more children. Daughters are born to larger families and hence receive less …

identification strategy relies on ratios between the number of young children and the capacity of preelementary schools observed at … unobserved determinants of early enrollment decision and children achievement. We measure this effect on schooling achievement in …

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children’s age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. Is this because parental education … actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely that more … able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This Paper proposes to answer this question by …