This paper makes three contributions to the literature on educational attainment gaps by family income. First, we … conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on post-secondary (PS) attendance for recent high … Youth in Transition Survey. We estimate substantially smaller PS attendance gaps by parental income in Canada relative to …

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 …

This paper studies the multidimensional nature of investments in children within a dynamic framework. In particular, we … dynamics of skill accumulation. Fourth, we use data from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics … to estimate the skill production technology for children ages 12 and younger. Our estimates suggest complementarity …

internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …