persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter … precision of the correlations themselves. -- Education ; income mobility ; income transmission ; intergenerational transmission …

intergenerational correlations are only able to capture parts of the influence of the family on children s cognitive and non …-cognitive skills. This result is in line with findings in the literature on educational and income mobility. …

importance of credit constraints in forming skills is examined. There is little support for the claim that untargeted income … will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

soziales Kapital auch für alle anderen Familienmitglieder dar; Bildung, Einkommen und Status der Eltern sind wesentliche … Ressourcen für die Kinder. Diejenigen, die bereits in ihrer Kindheit und Jugend bessere individuelle Startpositionen hatten, sind … auch im Erwachsenenalter im Vorteil. Diejenigen, die Kinder haben, verfügen in höherem Alter über Unterstützungsressourcen …

outcomes. The impact works mainly through the intensive margin and less through the probability of having children. It is … strongest in the first generation and becomes weaker for generation 1.5 (migrants arriving as children) and the second …

. The Education, Inclusion, and Development of Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Crucial Aspects for Governance in Africa …

. The Education, Inclusion, and Development of Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Crucial Aspects for Governance in Africa …

Given a severe nurse shortage in Switzerland, this paper investigates Swiss students choice for nursing college … suggests a role for policies that increase returns from studying nursing to attract students to nursing. In addition, the …