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 …

, grandfathers matter for income transmission, above and beyond their effect on fathers' income. Second, the socio-economic status of …

This paper asks whether universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) raises parents' earnings and how much these earnings effects … enrolling in a full-day UPK program in New Haven, Connecticut on parents' labor market outcomes as well as educational … expenditures and children's academic performance. During children's pre-kindergarten years, UPK enrollment increases weekly …

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 …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the …-family relations and focus on households as collections of roommates. The model's mechanism is that rising income leads to a falling … size, consumption patterns, and income in the cross-section at the end of the 20th century. We then project the model back …

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

Foster care provides substitute living arrangements to protect maltreated children. The practice is remarkably common …: it is estimated that 5 percent of children in the United States are placed in foster care at some point during childhood …. These children exhibit poor outcomes as children and adults, and economists have begun to estimate the causal relationship …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …