To address the dropout crisis requires a better understanding of why students drop out.
Although dropouts themselves report a variety of reasons for leaving school, these reasons …

▪ Abstract Until recently, social scientists were headed to consensus over the impact of the
structural parameters of the sibling group, especially size and birth order, on educational …

There is an extensive theoretical literature that postulates a trade-off between child quantity
and quality within a family. However, there is little causal evidence that speaks to this theory …

Although the inverse relationship between the number of siblings and children's educational
performance has been well established, explanations for this relationship remain primitive …

1970 年以来, 中国的生育率持续下降, 在家庭层面上表现为兄弟姐妹数的减少,
同时也影响了兄弟姐妹的构成, 进而影响家庭对子女教育的投资以及性别间的教育差异. 对2006 …

In 1972, Congress took another major step forward by requiring each state's Medicaid
program to include coverage of family planning services and supplies for all beneficiaries of …

Background: Few studies have investigated the individual long‐term contributions that
mothers and fathers make to their children's schooling. Aims:(1) To explore the role of early …

The resource dilution model posits that parental resources are finite and that as the number
of children in the family increases, the resources accrued by any one child necessarily …

This paper analyzes the effects of being indigenous, number of siblings, sibling activities
and sibling age structure on child schooling progress and child non-school activity. The …

The authors investigated core self-evaluations and educational attainment as mediating
mechanisms for the influence of appearance (physical attractiveness) and intelligence …