this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on …

We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …

risk aversion at low grade levels, but increase with risk aversion at the time when the decision to enter higher education … education. Differences in parental human capital and ability(ies) are much more important. …