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 …

, children's peers are complementary to financial investment by parents, while the adult role models are substitutes. In contrast … of a convex relation in rural and urban Indonesia. The rural-urban relative mobility curves cross, with the children of … children when the father has more than nine years of schooling. However, the rural children face lower absolute mobility across …

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 …

not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or …

displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45M Finnish individuals and their parents, we find …Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the US but also in Finland which … that: (i) the positive association between parental income and off-spring probability of inventing is greatly reduced when …

adults and children. Using microdata from 33 African countries, this paper documents the co-evolution of adult education … with the educational outcomes of children. As fertility declines, children's grade attainment rises, but their school … education. Rising women's education predicts declining fertility and rising children's grade attainment, but it is less …