stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended up with … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access …

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 …

transfers. For this purpose, we use unique data on children conceived through sperm and egg donation in IVF treatments in …

When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental … ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using … an intergenerational sample of families, we estimate on the basis of a comparison of biological and adopted children that …

One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However … implies that high-ability children in low-income families face binding credit constraints that society may wish to relieve. … is transferred genetically to children. This paper considers empirical strategies that control for both observed and …

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 …