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

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 …

using scores from IQ tests taken outside of school, at the time of military enrolment, and measured when students are around …

, we find that the children of persons affected in utero also have lower cognitive scores, suggesting a persistent …

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …

match adult children to their parents and siblings. In addition, we use exogenous variation in family size induced by the … children's educational attainment. However, when we include indicators for birth order, the effect of family size becomes … order has a significant and large effect on children's education; children born later in the family obtain less education …

While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores …

How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of … to a better understanding of children's long run outcomes. This paper uses a large dataset on the male population of … resulting from twin births have negative effects on the IQ of existing children …