This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational … income persistence in the U.S. I develop a dynamic general equilibrium model where lifetime income endogenously persists … including the U.S. income quintile transition matrix. I find that the parental time investment channel accounts for nearly 40 …

children who were exposed longer to the sanctions. The results imply that sanctions have a larger effect on the income of … children than their parents. Therefore, ignoring the effects of sanctions on future generations significantly understates their … on children's education by exploiting the United Nations sanctions imposed on Iran in 2006. Using the variation in the …

the child does not reciprocate. Parents and children make investments in the child's education, investments for other …We discuss a simple model of intergenerational transfers with one-sided altruism: parents care about their child but … purposes, and parents can transfer cash to their child. We show that for an identifiable set of parent-child pairs, parents …

Parental investments as well as school quality are important determinants of children's later-life outcomes. In this … paper, we shed light on what determines parental investments and study how parents perceive the returns to parental time …. Using a representative sample of 1,962 parents in England, we document that parents perceive the returns to 3 hours of …

administrative register data on 25000 genotyped Norwegian children and their parents. We assess and disentangle the relative … importance of genetics and social background for children's standardized academic test scores. Norway offers a particularly … opportunity structures for children. The results point to genetics only confounding the parent status-offspring achievement …

not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …