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 …

A growing number of central authorities use assignment mechanisms to allocate students to schools in a way that … reflects student preferences and school priorities. However, most real-world mechanisms incentivize students to strategically … from a deferred acceptance mechanism that assigns students to more than 1,000 university-major combinations in Chile …

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 …

the age ranges that best predict important human capital outcomes of children. The predictive power of parental resources … traditional snapshot proxies for lifetime incomes based on income flows at certain age windows in predicting child outcomes … used. We also find that the financial resources of parents compensate in part for nonmonetary inputs to child human capital …

This paper estimates teachers' impacts on their students' future criminal justice contact (CJC). Using a unique data … deviation of teacher effects on students' future arrests of 2.7 percentage points (11% of the sample mean). Teachers' effects on …

unobserved teacher quality is the same for all students is rejected by the data. We also present evidence that No Child Left … Behind-era school accountability increased the effectiveness of teacher quality for lower performing students …