stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended up with … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access …

adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and … prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents represents broad post-birth factors, such as childhood environment …, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to …

This paper examines whether children are better off if their parents have stronger social networks. Using data on high …-school friendships of parents, we analyze whether the number and characteristics of friends affect the labor-market outcomes of children … persistency and network measurement error. Only when children enter the labor market, we find that friends of parents have a …

In this paper we estimate the impact of parental schooling on child schooling, focus on the problem that children who …, replacement of observed with expected years of schooling, and elimination of all school-aged children. Plug (2004) - a recent …

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 …

effects; earlier born children stay behind in their human capital development from early childhood to adolescence. Turning to … potential mechanisms we find that earlier born children receive less quality time from their mothers than later born children …. In addition, they are breastfed shorter. The estimated birth order effects are largest for children in their teens …

Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide …. Finally, we conclude that income is a mechanism linking parent's and children's schooling, that can partly explain the …

transfers. For this purpose, we use unique data on children conceived through sperm and egg donation in IVF treatments in …

We examine the effect of a gifted and talented program in academic secondary education. Students are assigned based on … program effects. We find that assigned students obtain higher grades, follow a more science intensive curriculum (most notably … in university, where students choose more challenging fields of study with, on average, higher returns. Together, these …