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 …

The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …

persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …

attenuated. Nevertheless, we do find that children who share the same birth order and gender as their parents attain slightly … generation influences the educational attainment of their children. To address this question we use Swedish population data on … and exploit information on twin births in the parents generation. Relative to having a first-born mother, having a second …

occupational prestige is explained almost entirely by shared education, and sibling resemblance in family income is explained … other socioeconomic outcomes. Second, across the life course, siblings converge in earnings and income and maintain stable … earnings and income than nonblack siblings overall, but black siblings dramatically converge in income across the life course …

A growing literature points to children's influence on parents' behavior, including parental investments in children … Longitudinal Survey of Parents and Children (N=7,738), we construct polygenic scores for educational attainment and regress … status with college-educated parents responding less to children's genetic propensity towards educational success than non …

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is … estimated elasticity of intergenerational transmission of income of approximately .2 …

, and credit records, to identify the effects of increased student borrowing on credit-constrained students' educational …

of children from poorer families …

seem more pronounced for women and low-income students. In addition, there is little evidence that the effects of high … access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using …