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 …

women with children and with husbands from affluent backgrounds tend to exhibit reduced labor supply in the US and the UK … between married women's own earnings and their parents' earnings …