outcomes in the context of competition among colleges. When public policies promote “access” to college education, colleges … model offers an explanation to two sets of empirical phenomena: (i) the observed U-shaped earnings growth profile among …

significant, and robust to controlling for personal characteristics, educational attainment, income, and measures of liquidity …

Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistence of occupational choices across fathers and children. To separate effects … children who grew up with their biological fathers and those who did not. The results suggest that nurture-related effects … explain a significant fraction of the observed correlation of fathers’ and children’s occupational choices. We discuss policy …

We model the correlations of brothers’ life-cycle earnings separating for the first time the effect of paternal … earnings from additional residual sibling effects. We identify the two effects by analysing sibling correlations and … intergenerational correlations jointly within a unified framework. Our multi-person model of earnings dynamics distinguishes permanent …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality register 1995 …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the …

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and … minority children – lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by … “intermediate” inputs in education for treatment students. …

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and …

This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western … European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size …. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most equitable performance for students from different family backgrounds, and Britain …

This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background … (“Native Germans”). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare … Native Germans with the same formal education level. This empirical analysis is done with a completely new dataset based on …