educational attainment of the next generation were more severe for children with nontertiary-educated parents than those with … tertiary-educated parents, implying that the recession aggravated the pattern of societal inequality in Finland. Importantly …

We use administrative data from Norway to examine recent trends in the association between parents' prime age earnings … disproportionally benefited lower class offspring. The rising influence of parents' earnings rank can partly be explained by a … strengthened intragenerational association between earnings rank and education among parents, as educational achievement has an …

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

(SES) can also improve the well-being of their children. This chapter identifies several channels for this effect, drawing … maternal well-being can affect not only a woman's own children, but future generations as well. Finally, the chapter highlights …

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. …

, even though displacement episodes early in children's lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children's teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

children's reports of family or home characteristics rather than information provided by their parents. There is a well … socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on …'s occupation, parental education, and the number of books in the family home. Our results suggest that children's reports of their …

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

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

-generation immigrants and second-generation immigrants whose parents arrived shortly before birth. For most outcomes considered, I find that … distinct as often thought. I also use the measure assess whether parents' host country experience before a child's birth … performance of late-arriving first-generation children. …