We present a model of endogenous schooling and earnings to isolate the causal effect of parents' education on children …'s education and earnings outcomes. The model suggests that parents' education is positively related to children's earnings, but … regressing children's schooling on parents' schooling is mainly accounted for by the correlation between parents' schooling and …

daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their biological and rearing parents. Our analysis focuses on children raised in … six different family circumstances: raised by both biological parents, raised by the biological mother without a … the biological father with a stepmother, and raised by two adoptive parents. Relative to the existing literature, the most …

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …

, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …

, grandfathers matter for income transmission, above and beyond their effect on fathers' income. Second, the socio-economic status of …

-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal … differential impacts between sons and daughters or between younger and older children. Further results suggest that the impact of …

Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results … Income Dynamics, we generate more reliable estimates of the recent time-series variation in intergenerational mobility. Our …