Children’s socio-emotional skills: Is there a quantity–quality trade-off?

•We estimate the effect of family size on children’s socio-emotional skills in the UK.•We instrument family size by the sex of two first-born.•We find negative effects, which persist over time.•These negative effects are entirely driven by girls.•Compensating parental behaviors in favor of boys may...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Labour economics 2020-06, Vol.64, p.101811, Article 101811
Hauptverfasser:	Briole, Simon, Le Forner, Hélène, Lepinteur, Anthony
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Birth order Child development, Gender Economics and Finance Family size Humanities and Social Sciences Non-cognitive skills
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