income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …

reforms based on high-quality administrative register data, using children's grade point average (GPA) rank at age 15 to 16 …

This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and …, which was implemented across federal states at different points in time. Maternal schooling reduces children's smoking and … overweight in adolescence. The effects persist into children's adulthood, reducing chronic conditions that often result from …

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. …

We use administrative data from Norway to examine recent trends in the association between parents' prime age earnings … disproportionally benefited lower class offspring. The rising influence of parents' earnings rank can partly be explained by a … strengthened intragenerational association between earnings rank and education among parents, as educational achievement has an …

-generation immigrants and second-generation immigrants whose parents arrived shortly before birth. For most outcomes considered, I find that … distinct as often thought. I also use the measure assess whether parents' host country experience before a child's birth … performance of late-arriving first-generation children. …

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 …

immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the …This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three … in the share of immigrant children between different grade levels within schools is exploited to identify the impact of …

and the occupational position of the parents in childhood, which both correlate with household income, cannot explain the … the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children …'s life expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to women and men as …

We propose a model in which parents have a subjective belief about the impact of their investment on the early skill … formation of their children. This subjective belief is determined in part by locus of control (LOC), i.e., the extent to which …