secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … students in Hebrew-language schools from eighth grade to age 29, we provide evidence that despite Israeli schools being …

We present a model of endogenous schooling and earnings to isolate the causal effect of parents' education on children …'s education and earnings outcomes. The model suggests that parents' education is positively related to children's earnings, but … regressing children's schooling on parents' schooling is mainly accounted for by the correlation between parents' schooling and …

-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …

attainment, the relaxation of budget constraints, and increased social contact for children whose parents are less advantaged in …

comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …