Massive cross-sectional evidence exists indicating that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates … for identification within the same data: cousins with twin parents and adopted children. We find no effect of mothers …' education on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother …

Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide …. Finally, we conclude that income is a mechanism linking parent's and children's schooling, that can partly explain the …

We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending … mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …

parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses' siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …

parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses’ siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …

, even though displacement episodes early in children's lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children's teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

Most previous studies of intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to two generations – parents … and their children. In this study we use a Swedish data set which enables us link individual measures of lifetime earnings … based on income data from two generations accurately predicts earnings persistence beyond two generations. We also do a …

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is … estimated elasticity of intergenerational transmission of income of approximately .2 …