sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …

benefits from exposure to "privileged" peers accrue mainly to "disadvantaged" students. These benefits decline when the …

by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …

traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility - as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction …

increases in women's graduation rates will cause their children's graduation rates to increase further. But growth in the …

parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents …We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents … respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on …

monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes … children's socio-emotional skills. I leverage administrative and survey data from Germany to create exogenous between …-sibling variation in the PWG through a shift-share design. I find that decreases in the PWG do not affect children's socio …

a higher share of female classmates on students' disruptive behavior, engagement, test scores, and major choices in … disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged schools. We exploit the random assignment of students to classrooms in early high school in … students that contains a large and diverse set of school qualities, and household incomes, and b) we measure disruption and …

education. Although to some extent picking up inherited and acquired skills, our results suggest that if parents exhibit gender … stereotypical labour market behaviour, children of the same sex are more likely to choose a gender stereotypical education. The …