This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential … from parents to their children, there are large discrepancies with respect to the age group and the type of skill. The … personality traits (Big Five, locus of control) on their adolescent and young adult children's traits with the effects of parental …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with … variables on the relationship between children and parents, family size, and the parents' socioeconomic background …

Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution …

and quality of time parents spend with their children, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child's initial … measure a family's SES by the mother's and father's average years of education and household income. Our results show that … children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children's enrollment in upper secondary …

We find a positive relationship between math attitude and students' math scores using data obtained from PISA 2012 and …

compositions. Today, the descendants of these immigrants live and work in their parents destination countries. This paper presents …

government physicians - can account for developmental gaps between the children of college educated parents and those of less … educated parents. In total, health conditions explain 18% of the gap in cognitive ability and 65% of that in language ability … also focus on improving the health of disadvantaged children …

We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending … mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …

(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …