mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and … parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on …

College-educated mothers spend substantially more time in intensive childcare than less educated mothers despite their … of the American Time Use Survey, we investigate this puzzle by testing the hypothesis that college-educated mothers enjoy … childcare more. We find that among all mothers, spending time in childcare is associated with higher positive feelings compared …

comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … from a novel IV estimation that isolates variation in parent skill advantages due to their teacher and classroom peer … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

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 … its relationship with children's education is ambiguous. Identification is achieved by comparing the earnings of children …

.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census … enumerators and linking these children across population censuses, we first document large gaps in educational attainment and …

Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal … site opened or closed within one mile of their home. I find that children who were exposed prenatally to industrial …

of children ages 5 to 12. We examine whether wealth prior to birth and at ages 4 or 5 affects academic test scores and … children. We also examine associations between different forms of wealth (e.g., home equity) and child achievement and …

Recent research documents a causal impact of place on the long-run outcomes of children. However, little is known about …