administrative register data on 25000 genotyped Norwegian children and their parents. We assess and disentangle the relative … importance of genetics and social background for children's standardized academic test scores. Norway offers a particularly … opportunity structures for children. The results point to genetics only confounding the parent status-offspring achievement …

not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or …

adults and children. Using microdata from 33 African countries, this paper documents the co-evolution of adult education … with the educational outcomes of children. As fertility declines, children's grade attainment rises, but their school … education. Rising women's education predicts declining fertility and rising children's grade attainment, but it is less …

informal mentoring relationships between students and teachers, counselors, and coaches. Using longitudinal data from a … in college attendance. Effects are largest for students of lower socioeconomic status and robust to controls for … students have a strong sense of belonging are important school-level predictors of having a K-12 natural mentor …

-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains …-term gains and negative age-18 impacts. These outcome differences arise from differences in parents' response to the program. A …

investment in children. A key to understanding the data patterns is to document the sources underlying the observed inequalities … parents of higher SES being more likely to believe that parental investments impact child development. We then use two field … associated with enriched parent-child interactions and improved vocabulary, math, and social-emotional skills for the children …

child's human capital? Most parents whose children receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits overestimate the … likelihood that their child will receive SSI benefits in adulthood. Reducing parents' expectations that children will receive … benefits in adulthood does not increase investments in children's human capital. This zero effect is precisely estimated …

. We also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil …