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 …

, 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 …

two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies – augmented with a …

While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores …