We present a model of endogenous schooling and earnings to isolate the causal effect of parents' education on children …'s education and earnings outcomes. The model suggests that parents' education is positively related to children's earnings, but … regressing children's schooling on parents' schooling is mainly accounted for by the correlation between parents' schooling and …

comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or …

displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45M Finnish individuals and their parents, we find …Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the US but also in Finland which … that: (i) the positive association between parental income and off-spring probability of inventing is greatly reduced when …

adults and children. Using microdata from 33 African countries, this paper documents the co-evolution of adult education … with the educational outcomes of children. As fertility declines, children's grade attainment rises, but their school … education. Rising women's education predicts declining fertility and rising children's grade attainment, but it is less …

mobility across generations. The data follow the children of Black and White Union Army veterans from birth to death, linking … them to the available censuses. The White samples include an over-sample of children of ex-POWs. A separate collection …

sample of 3,500 Kenyan 3-8 year olds. Parents with additional exposure to childhood deworming have children with improved … units higher among treated parents' school-age children, only prior to school closures. Findings are interpreted through a …

regression methods to produce an intergenerational elasticity curve that measures how marginal changes in income at each age … affect expected offspring permanent income. Using the PSID, estimates of this curve exhibit near monotonicity with respect to …-specific effects for occupation. We conclude that important information about the links between parental incomes and children exists …

In this article I first describe the basic principles that parents employ in disciplining their children. The … principles of criminal law and those applied by parents in disciplining their children … description is based on a survey of parents, the major results of which are that parental sanctions are premised on wrongdoing …