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 …

-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 …

. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …

from a birth cohort that has been followed from birth into middle age. We find, controlling for parents' incomes …, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and … effects on educational attainment and initial adult health. Taken together with earlier findings that poorer children enter …

Students whose parents work in professional occupations generally outperform other students in mathematics, while … students whose parents work in elementary occupations tend to underachieve compared to their peers. The strength of the …. Finland and Japan achieve high levels of performance by ensuring that the children of parents who work in elementary …

parents and children. We find that higher levels of parents' wealth and income increase the likelihood that children attend …This paper examines the influence of parental wealth and income on children's college attendance and parental financing … of housing debt that parents hold but does not reduce student debt for children …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …