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 …The purpose of this paper is to assess intergenerational occupational mobility in Germany. Using data from the …

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …

This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to …

We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income … for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university …

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment …

fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …

Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality … schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that … children are significantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from low socio-economic status (SES) families …

on children's and parents' outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for …In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave … children's cognitive skills. School performance at age 16 increases for children whose father is relatively higher educated …