We use administrative data from Norway to examine recent trends in the association between parents' prime age earnings … disproportionally benefited lower class offspring. The rising influence of parents' earnings rank can partly be explained by a … strengthened intragenerational association between earnings rank and education among parents, as educational achievement has an …

We present a model of endogenous schooling and earnings to isolate the causal effect of parents' education on children …'s education and earnings outcomes. The model suggests that parents' education is positively related to children's earnings, but … regressing children's schooling on parents' schooling is mainly accounted for by the correlation between parents' schooling and …

, including early health, skills, and the parents' and child's own attitudes towards education, as well as outcomes related to …

There is a link between the socio-economic outcomes of parents and their children over the life course … residential neighbourhood status. Previous research from the Netherlands, Sweden, and the US shows that children from … households, schools, and places of work and leisure, which may also influence their outcomes. For children and adolescents, the …

, even though displacement episodes early in children's lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children's teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

benefits from exposure to "privileged" peers accrue mainly to "disadvantaged" students. These benefits decline when the …