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 …

traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility-as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction …

This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …

explain the underinvestment of parents in their children's human capital. We first incorporate these two potential mechanisms …

that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …

parental unemployment on children's human capital should be considered by policymakers, as should educational interventions to …

smoke. Men are the major income earners in most Chinese families and thus bear much of the financial burden in preparation … for children’s marriage. This paper investigates how a demographic factor - a large number of surplus men in the marriage … ratios among children and intense smoking among fathers. Considering worsening sex ratios and highly competitive marriage …

In many societies, parents prefer sons over daughters, but the well-being effects of child gender, especially in later … paper evaluates the impacts of having daughters on older parents' subjective well-being (SWB) in China, which has a rapidly … aging population and the traditional preference for sons. Studying the cohort of parents whose child gender is as good as …

We examine how first in family (FiF) graduates (those whose parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor … market. We find that among women, FiF graduates earn 7.4% less on average than graduate women whose parents have a university … to those who match their parents with a degree. The effects of coming from a lower educated family are large and positive …