-built administrative dataset on individuals born in Sweden between 1930–34 and their parents, we study the intergenerational transmission …

This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children’s later consumption of alcohol … effect is more prominent in the upper tail than elsewhere in the distribution of children’s alcohol consumption, conventional … regression analyses that focus on the mean effect may substantially underrate parental drinking as a risk factor for children …

Educational outcomes of children are highly dependent on household and schoollevel inputs. In poor countries … migrant parents can affect families’ time allocation towards education. Previous work on education inputs often implicitly … informal payments to public school teachers. This fact is at odds with a positive income effect due to migration. We argue that …

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children’s choices of STEM fields …

sind die Ursache für diese Verschlechterung der Englischkenntnisse der Kinder. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass Eltern ihre … Kinder an einer Vorschule anmelden, sinkt. Die Zeit, welche Kinder in der Vorschulde verbringen, wird durch die Zeit, die die … Eltern zu Hause mit den Kindern verbringt substituiert. Die Eltern reduzieren auch die Zeit für Freizeit und soziale Kontakte …

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger …Kinder, die bei der Einschulung älter sind als ihre Mitschüler, da sie deutlich vor dem Einschulungsstichtag geboren …

class on the academic success of newly immigrated primary school-aged children in comparison to their direct integration … 2019, we use the quasi-random allocation of refugee children to neighborhoods and therewith schools to measure the effect … immigrated children directly into regular classrooms fosters their academic achievement more than schooling them first in …

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 …

We study the optimal design of student financial aid as a function of parental income. We derive optimal financial aid … formulas in a general model. For a simple model version, we derive mild conditions on primitives under which poorer students …, labor supply in college, and uncertain returns. Optimal financial aid is strongly declining in parental income even without …