‐appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read‐athon. [Working paper No. 305]. URL: [http …

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …

the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …

the substantial political efforts to equalize educational opportunities in Germany. Persons with less-educated parents …

and fertility - discusses the social theory background, opportunity cost of children, economic, political, psychic and …

We consider an economic model of child development with multiple stages. Due to incomplete information, parents are not … the importance of early investments in children when inter-stage investments are easily substitutable, but strengthens …

, parents and children, while women helped their children. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/311.pdf]. …, Indonesia, before and after the tsunami. Children, older adults and females were the least likely to survive. Whereas socio …