about 75 percent of the intergenerational correlation in education is driven by the joint contribution of the parents. We … intergenerational transmission from both parents; a fall compensated by an increase in parent-specific intergenerational transmission …

about parents and children. We estimate the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment and earning capacity … with critical variations due to labour market conditions. At the time of transition around 1990 children's educational … attainment fell well below parents but recovered a decade later when the economy was booming …

This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine … children who lost one parent during childhood, we find a series of striking patterns which show that the relationship is … largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in …

government physicians - can account for developmental gaps between the children of college educated parents and those of less … educated parents. In total, health conditions explain 18% of the gap in cognitive ability and 65% of that in language ability … also focus on improving the health of disadvantaged children …

-educational background of university graduates. Parents' educational level seems to be the main determinant of the probability to get a …-educational background on children success at the university is not direct, but through the high school track. In fact, although any … secondary high school gives access to the university, nonetheless lyceums provide students with far higher quality of education …

parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses' siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …. We test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score …

supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is children aged 7-18 in households in which both parents usually coreside and … affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor … is not affected. We find no evidence that paternal temporary absence influences his children in terms of school …

We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little … attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities … countries (France, Italy and Germany) on the link between time allocation by parents and time allocation by youngsters …