connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children’s choices of STEM fields …

Several recent studies find that interventions in schools can have important lasting consequences for students, and … that schools differ in their contribution to students’ learning. However, there is less research investigating how these …

parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses’ siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …