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 …

–26) and their parents over nearly two decades which have been linked to survey responses from young people at age 18. The …

assistance if their parents have a history of receiving social assistance themselves. These young people also receive more … case of disability payments, payments for those with caring responsibilities, and parenting payments for single parents …. Disadvantage stemming from parents' poor labor market outcomes seems to be easier for young people to overcome. This suggests that …

-educated Australian-born mothers and fathers transfer separate and roughly equal educational advantages to their children, outcomes for …, intergenerational mobility in families with two highly-educated parents appears to be much the same for Australian-born and ESB families …

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