households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. …

immigrants of German descent and foreign origin persons. Education is a key indicator for future economic and social perspectives …

education, marriage and family. However, the ?guest worker? immigrants are not a homogenous group. The analyses reveal large …

, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to … intergenerational transmissions, and that pre-birth factors are more important for mother's education and less important for father …

as height, IQ, earnings, and education are significant and similar in magnitude to OLS estimates. Our estimates suggest …

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 …

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional … transmit the effect of maternal education to the child, including family environment and parental investments at different ages …

One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more … parents decreased significantly faster than that by less educated parents, turning a significant positive education gradient …