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 …

interventions. We show that even a modest transfer of family income to families at ages 5-6 would substantially increase children …We develop a new estimator for the process of children's skill formation in which children's skills endogenously … United States, we estimate the technology of skill formation, the process of parental investments in children, and the adult …

. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of … earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

quantify how much these preferences influence pre-labor market human capital investments. Undergraduate students are presented …In the second part of the paper, we relate these job attribute preferences to major choice. Using data on students …' perceptions about the demand side of the labor market--beliefs about expected attributes of jobs students anticipate being offered …

achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common (PISA) scale. We then estimate the share of children not achieving basic …