Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in … children thereby reducing their future earnings, and perpetuating poverty and inequality. The paper discusses important … of paternal and maternal shocks on different cohort groups, roles of cognitive abilities of children and quality of …

sources: first, the inheritance of innate abilities and social network of family from parents by children; and second, capital … occupations such as services and sales. The findings highlight the fact that children of parents employed in high-paying and …Historically, the issue of intergenerational evolution of income, wealth, and socioeconomic status has been the subject …

. Data from 135 couples and their children show that the father's risk aversion is negatively associated with school … evidence that points to a preference for current income generated by the employment of boys in high-value cash crop production …

parental time investments in early childhood among low-income parents. We designed and screened a video that provided …, we added a positive feedback message to parents about their accomplishments during their participation in an earlier … suggests a potentially important role for social networks in parenting interventions in low-income settings. …

on for several generations. Finally, we assess how parents' education affects the educational outcomes of their children … of individual labour income inequality between 1996 and 2014. Coincidentally, in the Brazilian National Household Sample … education between 14 and 31.5 per cent. On the other hand, omitting parents' education information also accounting for …

countries depends more on the human capital levels of their parents’ ethnic group (ethnic capital) than on parental investment …

proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I … increased by 2 per cent. I further show that consolidation decreased the proportion of high scorers among grade 5 students by 0 ….08 and did not decrease the proportion of high scorers among grade 8 students by more than 0.02. School consolidation is a …

2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …

students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education … and environment, impacting students' efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top … and labour market outcomes. The rule creates two potential effects on students: peer and ranking effects. The last student …