It is a well-known fact that the level of parents' education is strongly correlated with the educational achievement of … their children. In this paper,we shed light on the potential channels through which human capital is transmitted from … mothers to their children in early childhood. The main channels through which maternal human capital benefits the child …

A simple model of decentralised graduation standards is presented. It is shown that a school whose students are … disadvantaged on the labour market applies less demanding standards because such students have less incentives to graduate. The … model's predictions are tested using Dutch school-level data. Since students in the Netherlands have to participate both in …

during childhood using data from a longitudinal study, the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, starting at birth. Our work … characteristics of children. Third, we examine the skill development for girls and boys separately, as well as for children who were …

In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior … significant impacts on children's emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and neuroticism. Paternal health seems to be less relevant for … the development of these non-cognitive characteristics. However, we observe that paternal health shocks cause children to …

In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of poverty from Polish parents to their children through …. The results show that children´s education is strongly related to household structure, parents´ education, city size, and … region of residence. Household income and the parents´ labour market situation have only a weak, though significant, effect …

Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of …