income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …

daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their biological and rearing parents. Our analysis focuses on children raised in … six different family circumstances: raised by both biological parents, raised by the biological mother without a … the biological father with a stepmother, and raised by two adoptive parents. Relative to the existing literature, the most …

This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational … income persistence in the U.S. I develop a dynamic general equilibrium model where lifetime income endogenously persists … including the U.S. income quintile transition matrix. I find that the parental time investment channel accounts for nearly 40 …

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 …

This paper examines the effect of parents' social skills on children's sociability, using the U.S. National … characteristics from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). The sociability relationship varies across parents and children by … Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). This survey, like some other national surveys, lacks detailed information on parents …

level of education that an individual rises to is linked to the education level(s) of her/his parents. This note serves as … an alert to researchers undertaking empirical investigation into how the parents' education should be considered with … regard to the child's. Using Portuguese data we conclude that the parents should be viewed as a unit (i.e. as a couple), and …