comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

We develop a new estimator for the process of children's skill formation in which children's skills endogenously … United States, we estimate the technology of skill formation, the process of parental investments in children, and the adult … children with lower existing skills, suggesting the optimal targeting of interventions to disadvantaged children. Our estimates …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that it cannot be due solely to …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …