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secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … students in Hebrew-language schools from eighth grade to age 29, we provide evidence that despite Israeli schools being …
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-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …
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comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …
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Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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, grandfathers matter for income transmission, above and beyond their effect on fathers' income. Second, the socio-economic status of …
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traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility-as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction …
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This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …
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administrative register data on 25000 genotyped Norwegian children and their parents. We assess and disentangle the relative … importance of genetics and social background for children's standardized academic test scores. Norway offers a particularly … opportunity structures for children. The results point to genetics only confounding the parent status-offspring achievement …
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children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …
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This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …
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