fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children’s economic preferences …

) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio …

correlated unobservables, we find that children of low-educated parents benefit significantly from the presence of high … impact of heterogeneous ethnic capital on educational outcomes of children. Correcting for endogenous location choice and …-educated parental peers of the same ethnicity. High educated parental peers from other ethnicities do not influence children’s learning …

expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are …

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 …

This paper aims to study the process of intergenerational income mobility in some Latin American economies (Panama and … have a stagnant economy coupled with high income inequality. Our rich and detailed dataset, the IPUMS survey data bank …

order to increase their chances of obtaining a job in the host country after migration. Thus, all home country students may …