One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However … is transferred genetically to children. This paper considers empirical strategies that control for both observed and … unobserved parental ability. In the end, family income still has a significant effect, which must therefore be causative. It …

When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental … ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using … an intergenerational sample of families, we estimate on the basis of a comparison of biological and adopted children that …

adopted and own birth children to obtain genetically unbiased estimates. Our results provide a much better insight on whether … parents (and policy makers) can actually stimulate the educational attainment of future generations. Controlling for inherited …

important for men and women working in all types of occupations. Moreover, we find significant gender differences in personality … characteristics. Decomposition of personality-based earnings differentials into trait and parameter effects suggests that gender …

workers; and (iv) that among homosexual workers the gender gap is not observed. From this we conclude that the Dutch labor … market does not discriminate on the basis of both sexual orientation and gender in entry level jobs. …

causal effect of having children on female labor supply using IVF treated women in Denmark. Because observed chances of IVF …