The importance of birth order has been the subject of debate for centuries, and has captured
the attention of the general public and researchers alike. Despite this interest, scholars have …

A large body of research has examined the relationship between family size and child well-
being in developing countries, but most of this literature has focused on the consequences …

We investigate whether the introduction of the right to unilateral, no-fault, divorce for women
has an impact on domestic abuse, investments in children's human capital, women's labor …

We study the effect of birth order on educational outcomes in Mexico using 2 million
observations from the 2010 Census. We find that the effect of birth order is negative, and a …

Parents preferring sons tend to go on having more children until a boy is born and to
concentrate investment in boys for a given number of children (sibsize). Thus, having a …

This paper estimates the causal effect of only-child status on educational performance
among junior high school students from only-child and two-child families in China. It uses …

Despite the vast literature on the sibling effects on child educational outcomes, less is known
about how sibling gender structure relates to intrahousehold non-monetary resource …

While it is well known that there are systematic birth order effects on life cycle outcomes,
there is less consensus about underlying channels and mechanisms of birth order effects …

We investigate within‐family inequalities in human capital accumulation in India. Indicators
of the children's current stock of human capital and of investment into their continued human …

People's entrepreneurial intention and action largely depend on their development and
acquisition of entrepreneurial capital, including human, social, and financial capital. Extant …