about 75 percent of the intergenerational correlation in education is driven by the joint contribution of the parents. We … intergenerational transmission from both parents; a fall compensated by an increase in parent-specific intergenerational transmission …

quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents' involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity …We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents' involvement in education on … children's educational attainment and test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that the better the …

the religious behavior of the children. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed dataset of adolescent … friendship networks in the United States. We find that, for religious parents, the higher is the fraction of religious peers, the … more parents put effort in transmitting their religiosity, indicating cultural complementarity. For non-religious parents …

We investigate the racial gap in test scores between black and white students in Britain both in levels and differences …

employer from the father, while the preservation of high income status is distinctly related to this tendency. These findings … stress that child adult outcomes are related to the structure of labour markets, and underscore the role of resources parents … children …

Danish children, and find positive marginal hours effects on 9th grade test scores using accumulated time which are twice as …

evidence of residential neighborhood effects. Social proximity, as measured by similarity in religion, race and family income …