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 …

Inequality in income or earnings is the most indisputable fact about the distribution of income. Inequality in income … income redistribution, and the efficacy of various policy tools, economists are also concerned with establishing how various …. Economists have constructed various theories that purport to explain income distribution. Some aspects of these theories have …

-SES children reap both larger gains from having high age 7 test scores and smaller losses from having low age 7 test scores. The … opposite is true among high-SES children who suffer larger losses from low scores and smaller gains from high scores. However …

Parental investments as well as school quality are important determinants of children's later-life outcomes. In this … paper, we shed light on what determines parental investments and study how parents perceive the returns to parental time …. Using a representative sample of 1,962 parents in England, we document that parents perceive the returns to 3 hours of …

administrative register data on 25000 genotyped Norwegian children and their parents. We assess and disentangle the relative … importance of genetics and social background for children's standardized academic test scores. Norway offers a particularly … opportunity structures for children. The results point to genetics only confounding the parent status-offspring achievement …

concentrated among children whose parents have a high school education or less …We study the relationship between parental job loss and children's academic achievement using data on job loss and … grade retention from the 1996, 2001, and 2004 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation. We find that a …

educational mobility by exploiting within-family variation from children whose families moved during primary school age. While …

This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original … participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and … lower levels of participation in crime, compared with the children of untreated participants. Impacts are especially …