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 …

husband and wife separate information on hourly wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate structural …

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 …

tracking of students in secondary schools. Many European countries have moved from a system of tracking students early to one … where students stay in comprehensive schools until a fairly late age. Britain moved from a system of extensive and early …, students would take an exam at age eleven, which determined whether they would attend an academically oriented grammar school …