Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school … administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks …, on achievement. Identification comes from siblings observed in the same year. I find that family shocks are at least as …

The relationship between completed education and adult cognition is investigated using data from the Indonesia Family … relationship, including genetics and parental preferences and investments. After establishing the importance of shared family … background factors, we document substantively large, significant impacts of education on cognition in models with sibling fixed …

children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries … differ significantly. Family structure could potentially have a less negative effect in Sweden than in the United States …