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 …

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 …

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational …

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … pronounced for higher performing students. By contrast, gender differences in media time are the main factor explaining gender … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …