Papers in this volume and elsewhere consistently find a strong relationship between children's cognitive abilities and … their parents' socio-economic position (SEP). Most studies seeking to explain the paths through which SEP affects cognitive … determinant of children's cognitive abilities, namely parental cognitive ability. A range of econometric strategies have been …

, affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. In our empirical specification we use household … income reduction associated with it, whereas for girls, changes in the household decision-maker appear to play an important … role. -- Child labour ; Schooling ; Adverse event ; Income loss ; Credit and insurance market failures ; Bargaining …

as labor earnings of the children who went through the post reform school system, in particular for individuals … the generation directly affected by the reform as well as their children. We use census data on all born in Sweden between … 1945 and 1955 and all their children merged with individual register data on all convictions between 1981 and 2008. We find …

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our … results show substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate …

and unobservable characteristics affect children's decisions to drop out of high school. First, we document the strength … of observable socio-economic factors: our data suggest that teenage boys with two parents who are themselves high school … dropouts have a 16% chance of dropping out, compared to a dropout rate of less than 1% for boys whose parents both have a …