stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …

,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children … be roughly stable across cohorts. Despite a reduction in overall education inequality, we conclude that family background …We analyse the evolving impact of family background on educational attainment using administrative data on 2 …

A large literature establishes that cognitive and non-cognitive skills are strongly correlated with educational … reverse causality and selection issues. We suggest a new approach: using within-family differences in the genetic tendency to … between full siblings are random, making it possible to establish the causal effects of within-family variation in genetic …

A large literature establishes that cognitive and non-cognitive skills are strongly correlated with educational …, we use differences between individuals in the presence of genetic variants that are associated with differences in skills …, making it possible to establish the causal effects of within-family genetic variation. We link genetic data from individuals …

the age of 50 by parental income for men. However, the longevity gains of men from low-income families seem to have come … at the cost of increased mortality among men who grew up in high-income families. This raises questions about the welfare …

This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a … of increasing parents' schooling from a high school degree to a bachelor's degree. Both for the effect of mother …

Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK … children's development up to the age of seven. Estimating production functions for cognitive, social, and socio …-emotional skills we find that exposure during pre-school years has a quantitatively important negative effect on socio-emotional skills …

This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children … for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the opposite. We show in a simple model of parental investment that gender …

endowments. Exploiting only within-family variation in both ensures they are exogenous as well as orthogonal to each other. As … exploits data from 15,019 full siblings in the UK Biobank. We adopt a family-fixed effects strategy combined with instrumental …