-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …

firms. We examine whether the effects of parental background in firm selection contribute to the persistence of income … the economic background of their parents. This influence on wages is significant and relatively greater than the impact of …

children of urban college educated fathers, but not in rural areas. Theoretical insights help understand the mechanisms …

persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's educationbecause of credit market imperfections. Parents may … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. Inurban China, and urban and … evidence of pure son preference in rural India.The girls in rural China do not face bias in financial investment by parents …

results show that students attending vocational schools perform significantly worse than those in general schools, except in … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … significant, while among students in vocational schools, those in a small city tend to perform better than those in a big city …

childhood are more likely to send their children to work. We also look at the effect of social norms on the parents' child labor … poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor, we choose to focus on the phenomenon that parents who worked during own … explanation for the phenomenon of poor societies with similar income levels that differ significantly in literacy rates and …

A large literature on intergenerational mobility focuses on the conditional mean of children's economic outcomes to … suggests a strong influence of father's education on conditional variance of children's schooling. We find substantial … measures substantially underestimate the effects of family background on children's educational opportunities, and may give a …

collect information on all the children when they grow up. A less demanding but policy-relevant approach is to focus on the …

opportunities in Italy. Our analysis relies on a rich dataset that contains data both on individuals and their real parents, as well …