parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …

, by examining the relation with years of education for different family sizes separately; this avoids the problem that …

their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …

, by examining the relation with years of education for different family sizes separately; this avoids the problem that …

their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …

, by examining the relation with years of education for different family sizes separately; this avoids the problem that …

order has a significant and large effect on children?s education; children born later in the family obtain less education …