correlation between parents' and children's education. Using data for 1954-1993 birth cohorts, we find a decrease in … distribution. Nevertheless, a considerable portion of children's education still depends on family background. Children from poor … education, should target the offspring of educationally deprived parents. …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

-educational background of university graduates. Parents' educational level seems to be the main determinant of the probability to get a …-educational background on children success at the university is not direct, but through the high school track. In fact, although any … secondary high school gives access to the university, nonetheless lyceums provide students with far higher quality of education …

, education and personality skills do not always raise the family earnings of women in this cohort, as women with very high … education and personality traits. I identify a previously undocumented interaction between education and traits in earnings … education and IQ are less likely to marry, and thus have less income through their husbands. To identify personality traits, I …

gaps by family background, though they account for little of the continuing gender gap favoring young men in earnings. …In this paper, we provide a comprehensive and up-to-date snapshot of the most important postsecondary education and … labor market outcomes in the U.S. using two nationally representative sources of data: The Survey of Income and Program …

records have been linked to UI earnings data and also to secondary education records. Our main findings can be summarized as …In this paper we examine a range of postsecondary education and labor market outcomes, with a particular focus on … groups, and 2) Earnings of the disadvantaged are hurt by low completion rates in postsecondary programs, poor performance …

education affect earnings in the labour market. We account for differences in innate ability by aggregating subjective responses …The education services provided in any given country increasingly contribute to human capital that is employed in … data from the 2006-07 Adult Literacy and Life Skills survey in New Zealand to examine how years of foreign and domestic …

-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are … percent of differences in these outcomes by family background (measured by mother's education), but this effect disappears … when own education is added to the model. Both cognitive and non-cognitive skills are strongly predictive of education …

determinants of educational attainment – differential returns to skills for children in different circumstances. Though the returns …Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households … have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated …