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 …

correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that it cannot be due solely to …

-random distribution of teachers and students among classrooms within schools. We find compelling evidence that teacher credentials affect … distribution of teacher credentials by race and socio-economic status of high school students -- a pattern we also document …

students' lifetime income by more than $250,000 for the average class- room in our sample. We conclude that good teachers …Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has …' impacts on student achievement and (2) whether high-VA teachers improve students' long-term outcomes. We address these two …