Massive cross-sectional evidence exists indicating that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates … for identification within the same data: cousins with twin parents and adopted children. We find no effect of mothers …' education on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother …

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 …

, even though displacement episodes early in children's lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children's teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is … estimated elasticity of intergenerational transmission of income of approximately .2 …

change parents' resources and restrictions have causal effects on their children …In every society for which we have data, people's educational achievement is positively correlated with their parents …' education or with other indicators of their parents' socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is …

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