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 …

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 …

This paper studies the long-term relationship between parental and child education in Germany, where children are … tracked into academic and non-academic track schools at the age of 10. On average, children are more likely to attend an … academic track school if their parents attended one. Estimating marginal treatment effect curves, we find that there is no …

naturalized children of guest workers, ethnic Germans, EU and third country immigrants. In line with previous research, I find … less adversely affected by low parental education than are the children of native Germans. …

, it is crucial to announce them in advance to allow parents to adjust their investments when their children are young. …Parental investments significantly impact children's outcomes. Exploiting panel data covering individuals from birth to … mothers and fathers make investments in their children. We find that time investments, educational investments, and …

This paper makes three contributions to the literature on educational attainment gaps by family income. First, we … conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on post-secondary (PS) attendance for recent high … Youth in Transition Survey. We estimate substantially smaller PS attendance gaps by parental income in Canada relative to …

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a …-born German children and non-existent for children from guestworker households. Income effects are also small relative to the … late-childhood income is a more important determinant of outcomes than early-childhood income, and income effects are not …

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a …-born German children and non-existent for children from guestworker households. Income effects are also small relative to the … late-childhood income is a more important determinant of outcomes than early-childhood income, and income effects are not …

. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …