We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the … United States at the onset of formal education. Our identification strategy rests on the assumption that, conditional on … covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn children in a family is arguably exogenous. With regard to cognitive …

The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the … benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality … children who attended such programmes no better off academically than those who did not. This paper studies the relationship …

We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the … United States at the onset of formal education. Our identification strategy rests on the assumption that, conditional on … covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn children in a family is arguably exogenous. With regard to cognitive …

born children and in families with fewer sons. We then study the son preference-specific girl-penalty in early cognitive …

This paper uses register based data covering the entire population of Danish children enrolled in preschool in 2006 … are larger for boys who did not have access to male teachers previously and among children with less readily access to …