children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with … variables on the relationship between children and parents, family size, and the parents' socioeconomic background …

of income or parents' unemployment determine children's school achievements. Second, we analyze the effect of job … their children, beyond the well‐established effects of education, income and demography. First, we test whether the source … prestige and factors of societal engagement on children's performance. Our results indicate no clear income associations but …

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 …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children’s secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children’s enrollment in upper secondary …

We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … associated with higher educational outcomes for immigrant children, possibly through a quantity-quality trade-off. Third, we show …

transmits to children and grandchildren. Our findings indicate that third generation males (females) tend to have higher mental …

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 …

on parents carried over to the entire family, making special groups of children worse off than others? To answer this …Can moving to an earnings-related parental leave system influence children's well-being and are heterogeneous effects … overall benefit amount compared to the pre-reform situation. 2-3-year-old children belonging to the reform's winners, however …

their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …