Parents now engage in much more intensive parenting styles compared to a few decades ago. Today's parents supervise … their children more closely, spend more time interacting with them, help much more with homework, and place more emphasis on … educational achievement. More intensive parenting has also led to more unequal parenting: highly educated parents with high …

We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two … channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by affecting the child's field of study choices and … decreases the likelihood of the child choosing the father's field of study or finding employment in the father's plant. Children …

educational levels of parents are considered key factors in explaining children's educational success. Nevertheless, the … literature has not reached consensus on the causal effects of parents' education on their child's schooling. This is because both … parents' and the child's schooling depend on unobserved heterogeneity. Moreover, the strong positive correlation of the mother …