population of households whose children attend public schools in Florida. Girls growing up in a boy-biased family score 3 … those of their children, supporting the hypothesis that preferences transmitted through the family impact children behavior. …

This paper studies whether prosocial values are transmitted from parents to their children. We do so through an …-generational transmission of values. The absence of correlation between parents' and children's behavior, however, is consistent with part of … child and that of his or her parents. Such lack of cooperation is robust across age groups, sex, family size and different …

We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …

the fraction of young adults living with their parents in Mediterranean Europe. This paper presents a cultural …

-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the US. Controlling for the quality of schools and … individual characteristics, students from countries with long term oriented attitudes perform better than students from cultures … that do not emphasize the importance of delayed gratification. These students perform better in third grade reading and …