We present a model of endogenous schooling and earnings to isolate the causal effect of parents' education on children …'s education and earnings outcomes. The model suggests that parents' education is positively related to children's earnings, but … regressing children's schooling on parents' schooling is mainly accounted for by the correlation between parents' schooling and …

daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their biological and rearing parents. Our analysis focuses on children raised in … six different family circumstances: raised by both biological parents, raised by the biological mother without a … the biological father with a stepmother, and raised by two adoptive parents. Relative to the existing literature, the most …

vocational training nor the occupational position of the parents in childhood, which both correlate with household income, can … Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life … expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to daughters and sons as well as …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …

We estimate the causal effect of maternal education on the mental health of mother's children in late adolescence and … adulthood. Theoretical considerations are ambiguous about a causal effect of maternal education on children's mental health. To … causal protective effect of maternal education on children's mental health. Instead, our empirical results suggest a moderate …

This paper studies the intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on students' transitions after completing … adverse impact of parental unemployment on children's educational transitions. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio … mediation analysis suggests that the effect of paternal unemployment is not due to the loss of income, but relates to the …

comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

Inequality in income or earnings is the most indisputable fact about the distribution of income. Inequality in income … income redistribution, and the efficacy of various policy tools, economists are also concerned with establishing how various …. Economists have constructed various theories that purport to explain income distribution. Some aspects of these theories have …

This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential … from parents to their children, there are large discrepancies with respect to the age group and the type of skill. The … personality traits (Big Five, locus of control) on their adolescent and young adult children's traits with the effects of parental …