across children within the family. Older siblings, especially firstborn males, are more likely to migrate, while having more …

degree of crowding in the household. The evidence suggests that family size affected the health of children through its … of children, as the quality-quantity trade-off would suggest. We use microdata from a unique survey from 1930s Britain to … analyze the relationship between the standardized heights of children and the number of children in the family. Our results …

information on all births. Our estimation approach accounts for motherhood being a staggered treatment. The reform has small …

We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … associated with higher educational outcomes for immigrant children, possibly through a quantity-quality trade-off. Third, we show …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … ; education ; fertility ; children ; instrumental variables ; compulsory schooling laws …

respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on … parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents … to add to their children's quality by investing in their human capital (or the price effect). Our empirical strategy …

children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not … from six to eight weeks. Our estimation strategy exploits that the eligibility for the extended leave was determined by a … children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …