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 …

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 …

We examine the relationship between parental ethnic identity and cognitive development in ethnic minority children …. This aspect of parental identity may shape children's cognitive outcomes through a direct influence on parenting behaviour …, we find a negative association between maternal majority identity and children's cognitive test scores. This result is …

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 …

concentrated among children whose parents have a high school education or less …We study the relationship between parental job loss and children's academic achievement using data on job loss and … grade retention from the 1996, 2001, and 2004 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation. We find that a …

Information about children's school performance appears to be readily available. Do frictions prevent parents …, particularly low-income parents, from acting on this information when making decisions? I conduct a field experiment in Malawi to … test this. I find that parents' baseline beliefs about their children's academic performance are inaccurate. Providing …

stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended up with … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access …

benefits from exposure to "privileged" peers accrue mainly to "disadvantaged" students. These benefits decline when the …

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 …