vocational training nor the occupational position of the parents in childhood, which both correlate with household income, can … Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life … expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to daughters and sons as well as …

We estimate the causal effect of maternal education on the mental health of mother's children in late adolescence and … adulthood. Theoretical considerations are ambiguous about a causal effect of maternal education on children's mental health. To … causal protective effect of maternal education on children's mental health. Instead, our empirical results suggest a moderate …

transmits to children and grandchildren. Our findings indicate that third generation males (females) tend to have higher mental …

analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study in which we observe children when they make their …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a … of increasing parents' schooling from a high school degree to a bachelor's degree. Both for the effect of mother …

treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …