compulsory schooling from five to eight years, on the developmental outcomes of children aged 36 to 59 months. We draw upon data … increase in maternal educational attainment and corresponding enhancements in children's readiness to learn. Exploring the … underlying mechanisms, we find a notable expansion in the number and variety of activities parents, especially fathers, engage in …

mothers and fathers, particularly fathers, spend more time with their children, and the variety of activities parents engage …-old children in Turkey. As the source of exogenous variation in maternal schooling, we use mothers' exposure to the 1997 education … mothers' educational attainment and a rise in children's readiness to learn. Our finding is novel because it measures …

particularly detrimental for students from lower socioeconomic groups - contributing to increased inequality. …

of Canadians is offered, as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants …. Persistence in the years of schooling across the generations is rather weak between immigrants and their Canadian born children … second generation children, and if anything negatively correlated. Finally we find that the intergenerational transmission of …