this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on …

We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons …. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved … income elasticity of 0.276, while our twin-based intergenerational income elasticity is 0.12. This is close to the estimate …

as much as father's schooling for children's schooling. We also estimate the effect of parents' schooling separately by …Behrman and Rosenzweig (2002) used data on a small sample of MZ (monozygotic, identical) twin parents and their … children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for children's schooling in the U.S. Recent …

We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …