In this paper we estimate the impact of parental schooling on child schooling, focus on the problem that children who …, replacement of observed with expected years of schooling, and elimination of all school-aged children. Plug (2004) - a recent …

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 …

This paper examines whether children are better off if their parents have stronger social networks. Using data on high …-school friendships of parents, we analyze whether the number and characteristics of friends affect the labor-market outcomes of children … persistency and network measurement error. Only when children enter the labor market, we find that friends of parents have a …

We conduct a study under 2,400 third grade students at three large secondary comprehensive schools to evaluate a gifted … tracks at different schools) to get difference-in-differences (DD) estimates for all students above the admission cutoff …. Second, we use the GT admission rule to get regression discontinuity (RD) estimates for students near the admission cutoff …

are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …

Without a school degree, students can have difficulty in the labor market. To improve the lives of upper …-secondary school dropouts, German states instituted a school reform that awarded an interim degree to high-track students upon …-track completion, university entrance rates, and later income, arguably by reducing the perceived risk of trying longer in the high …

- on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students …

-- on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic …