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 …

the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …

progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining … educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …

Study, we estimate the intergenerational correlation of mental health between mothers, their children, and their … depressed is 63 percent higher for children whose mothers reported the same symptom 20 years earlier. Moreover, grandmother and … mental health reduces household income for their adult offspring by around 2 percent …

Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension, but a large (about 14 times the size) gradient … in low income households. Given the wide use of such self-reported chronic health conditions in applied research, and the …

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

household income only being a significant predictor of death from cancer. Moreover, we find that children born in a location … from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in 1937-39, who have been traced through official death records … results confirm that childhood conditions such as household income and the quality of the home environment are significant …

determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the … child mental health evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists for mental health problems, test whether … the different reports for the estimated income gradient. We find that respondents frequently evaluate children differently …