We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …

as labor earnings of the children who went through the post reform school system, in particular for individuals … the generation directly affected by the reform as well as their children. We use census data on all born in Sweden between … 1945 and 1955 and all their children merged with individual register data on all convictions between 1981 and 2008. We find …

sources. We find that the reform increased both the educational attainment and the earnings of children whose fathers had just … complusory education. However the earnings of those with educated parents declined - possibly because of a dilution of quality at …

that is better suited to evaluate the program. We find that the program has a positive effect on the enrollment of children … neutral change in the program that would increase the grant for secondary school children while eliminating for the primary … school children would have a substantially larger effect on enrollment of the latter, while having minor effects on the …

heterogeneity. Our model allows for four main social insurance programmes. In contrast to simpler models that attribute all income …

partial equilibrium under imperfect insurance. In this paper the assumption of i.i.d. income innovations used in previous … empirical studies is removed and the focus of the analysis placed on models for the conditional variance of income shocks, that … earnings determination that separate income shocks into idiosyncratic transitory and permanent components. We allow for …