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 …

This paper investigates the relationship between parental health shocks and children's engagement in education and … health on children's educational and labour market outcomes is limited, especially in developing countries. We use child … maternal illness substantially decreases chances of being enrolled in school for children between 10 and 23 years old and, at …

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 …

We present the first Australian estimates of intergenerational mobility that draw on direct observations of income from … two generations. Using panel data for three birth cohorts of young adults from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics … Australia survey, the estimated intergenerational income elasticity is 0.28. Correcting for attenuation bias raises this to 0 …

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

This study investigates how maternal working hours are related to various outcomes in children aged 11 to 15 using a … employment on children has been motivated by the rapid increase of female participation rates in the labour market and increased … shares of children living in female-headed or single-mother households. The existing literature on this issue is very limited …