More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is …

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 and earnings … Norway that allows us to precisely measure birth order effects on IQ using both cross-sectional and within-family methods …

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

How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of … to a better understanding of children's long run outcomes. This paper uses a large dataset on the male population of … Norway and focuses on one family characteristic: the effect of family size on IQ. Because of the endogeneity of family size …

match adult children to their parents and siblings. In addition, we use exogenous variation in family size induced by the … children's educational attainment. However, when we include indicators for birth order, the effect of family size becomes … order has a significant and large effect on children's education; children born later in the family obtain less education …

significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children … fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a … shaping family life are stressed …

Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college …. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married female labor-force participation is developed …

, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued … marriage and divorce is developed. Household production benefits from labor-saving technological progress …