Massive cross-sectional evidence exists indicating that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates … for identification within the same data: cousins with twin parents and adopted children. We find no effect of mothers …' education on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother …

, 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 on higher order skills. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the parents of lower achieving students …The time children spend with their parents affects their development. Parenting programs can help parents use that time … parents of higher achieving students, weekday texts are more effective because weekdays are more challenging, but not so …

negative direct effect on mid-childhood and teenage outcomes. But as mothers' work hours increase, income will rise. We ask … whether income can compensate for the negative effect of hours by adopting a novel mediation analysis that exploits exogenous … variation in both mothers' hours and family income in pre-school years. As expected we find a negative direct effect of an …

divorce has persistent, and mostly negative, effects on children that differ significantly between boys and girls. Treated …

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is … estimated elasticity of intergenerational transmission of income of approximately .2. -- Ability ; intergenerational mobility …

using scores from IQ tests taken outside of school, at the time of military enrolment, and measured when students are around …

of children from poorer families. -- birth weight ; twins ; education ; IQ ; earnings …