leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age … effects on sons than daughters. We find that the education effects remain significant even when household income is included …. Moreover, decomposing the income when the child is 16 between a permanent component and shocks to income at age 16 only the …

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … instruments in income regressions. …

This paper compares patterns of private school attendance in the UK and Australia. About 6.5% of school children in the … to model attendance at a private school at age 15 or 16 as a function of household income and other child and parental … characteristics. As one might expect, we observe a strong effect of household income on private school attendance. The addition of …

to an increase in their wife's wage. Non-labour income reduces paid work by parents and increases their non-market time …. Higher-educated and older parents spend more time with their children. There are significant and positive correlations across … of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model …

influence of religion on income. The violation of the homogeneity assumption would have two consequences. First, results based … countries. We estimate simultaneously an income and a religion equation to correct for the endogeneity of religiosity. We find … that estimation outcomes are different between low and high-income countries. Whereas church membership is found to have a …

follow two cohorts of students in England - those who took GCSEs in 2001-02 and 2002-03 - from age 11 to age 20. The findings … hold for both state and private school students. This suggests that poor attainment in secondary schools is more important … in explaining lower HE participation rates amongst students from disadvantaged backgrounds than barriers arising at the …

generations by studying the association between parental income and children's prevalence to smoke in Britain using data from the … British Household Panel Survey and British Youth Survey. We find an inverse relation between parental income and children … income and healthy behaviour. This could however be due to individual characteristics that determine both income and health …