Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … relationship between parents’ education and children’s education, despite significant OLS relationships. We find 2SLS estimates … children’s education are due primarily to family characteristics and inherited ability and not education spillovers. …

change parents' resources and restrictions have causal effects on their children. …In every society for which we have data, people’s educational achievement is positively correlated with their parents …’ education or with other indicators of their parents’ socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is …

their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this imply that policies …

important effects of family characteristics and residential location on educational attainment and adult earnings in Norway …. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as the correlations among siblings are significantly higher than among children …

characteristics that are hard to measure like norms and peer effects among teachers and pupils. Furthermore, family background and … primary schools and neighbourhoods on adult educational attainment controlling for family characteristics. Instead of … final years of schooling among neighbouring children and school mates. We find a clear trend of declining influence of …

production is important. Seniority affects bargaining power but is unproductive. We reinterpret gender and firm­-size effects in …