income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …

adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and … prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents represents broad post-birth factors, such as childhood environment …, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to …

particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … estimates of the effect of parental education will be biased upwards. Moreover, it is very common for parental income data to be … grouped, in which case income is measured with error and the coefficient on income will be biased towards zero and there are …

. We assess this approach by comparing directly evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists of three …Research on the socioeconomic determinants of health is often based on parental assessments of their children's health … turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …

The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in … secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income.We use sibling fixed effects models and … information on a natural experiment in order to analyze whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to …

more income elastic than public goods, as we document in the paper, an increase in income endogenously leads to smaller … number of children. …

We study how fathers and mothers income satisfaction correlates with the income satisfaction of their sons and … daughters, as well as with other economic and socio-demographic variables. We estimate these correlations using data on parents … and children in households surveyed in the eight waves of the European Community Household Panel-ECHP (1994-2001) for 14 …