Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide …. Finally, we conclude that income is a mechanism linking parent's and children's schooling, that can partly explain the …

Most previous studies of intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to two generations – parents … and their children. In this study we use a Swedish data set which enables us link individual measures of lifetime earnings … based on income data from two generations accurately predicts earnings persistence beyond two generations. We also do a …

increase in the share of independent-school students between Swedish municipalities. We find that an increase in the share of … independent-school students improves average performance at the end of compulsory school as well as long-run educational outcomes … primarily are due to external effects (e.g., school competition), and not that independent-school students gain significantly …

school share moderately improves short-term educational outcomes such as 9th-grade GPA and the fraction of students who …

early achievement. It exploits two features of the school system in Holland. The first is rolling admissions; children are … children having their birthday before, during and after the summer holiday are placed in the same class. These features … generate sufficient exogenous variation in children's maximum length of schooling to identify its effects on test scores …