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 …

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 …

This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational … income persistence in the U.S. I develop a dynamic general equilibrium model where lifetime income endogenously persists … including the U.S. income quintile transition matrix. I find that the parental time investment channel accounts for nearly 40 …

children's performance only through parents. We find that one additional score point in the origin country performance in math …In this study, we provide evidence that parents' beliefs about the value of math, in terms of successful employment …, have a positive impact on children's math scores. This result is robust to the reverse causality issue that characterizes …

children who were exposed longer to the sanctions. The results imply that sanctions have a larger effect on the income of … children than their parents. Therefore, ignoring the effects of sanctions on future generations significantly understates their … on children's education by exploiting the United Nations sanctions imposed on Iran in 2006. Using the variation in the …