We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and …

channels through which the effects of capital tax cuts and increases in public spending on both pre- and post-college education …

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 – 2002, we assess whether family …. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …

-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in … progress in upper-secondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track - entering the second year of upper-secondary education - is 15 percentage points. Observable differences in cognitive and non …

benefits of university education in a sample of 2,540 secondary school students. Our choice model estimates reveal that …

significant, and robust to controlling for personal characteristics, educational attainment, income, and measures of liquidity …

Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistence of occupational choices across fathers and children. To separate effects … children who grew up with their biological fathers and those who did not. The results suggest that nurture-related effects … explain a significant fraction of the observed correlation of fathers’ and children’s occupational choices. We discuss policy …

-migrants. Conditional on occupational skills, education and earnings no longer predict migration decisions. Differential labor …We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through … occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find …

that a public policy that disregards the effects of parental time on children's human capital entails a welfare loss that …

Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises …