parental unemployment on children's human capital should be considered by policymakers, as should educational interventions to …

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and …

of interest.We find that children of low-educated parents benefit significantly from the presence of high … the causal impact of parental peer-heterogeneity on the educational outcomes of their children. To identify the direction … of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …

This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original … participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and … lower levels of participation in crime, compared with the children of untreated participants. Impacts are especially …

educational attainment. Is it a genetic inter-generational transmission of innate ability from parents to their children (i ….e. nature) or is it the environment that the better educated parents provide for their children (i.e. nurture) that explains …It is evident that a strong positive correlation persists between the educational attainment of parents and that of …

about parents and children. We estimate the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment and earning capacity … with critical variations due to labour market conditions. At the time of transition around 1990 children's educational … attainment fell well below parents but recovered a decade later when the economy was booming …

study, we focus on the reliability of students' earnings expectations. To what extent is observed log earnings expectations …

This paper estimates the impact of college teaching on students' academic achievement and labor market outcomes using … of students to teachers in a fixed sequence of compulsory courses.We find that good teaching matters more for the labor … best students are also the ones who boost their earnings the most. On the contrary, for low ability students the academic …

We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children …