opportunities by reducing financial difficulties among households. We conclude from this that the effects of parental income on …

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 …

This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a … of increasing parents' schooling from a high school degree to a bachelor's degree. Both for the effect of mother …

,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children …

dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, childrenś gender affects not only the … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …

treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …