educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children's enrollment in upper secondary …

-born children of immigrants were asked to take Woodcock-Johnson achievement test. In both rounds, prior to the administration of … tests, children of Hispanic origin were randomly assigned to take the tests either in Spanish or in English. Therefore, we … suggest that in reading tests, U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants perform better, when they are assigned to take the …

We investigate the long-term effects of households' exposure to violent conflict on children's educational attainment … educational attainment of children measured by grade point averages. Impaired non-cognitive rather than cognitive skills are … identified as channels through which exposure affects children's educational achievement. …

In this paper we estimate the impact of parental schooling on child schooling, focus on the problem that children who …, replacement of observed with expected years of schooling, and elimination of all school-aged children. Plug (2004) - a recent …

the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …

We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … associated with higher educational outcomes for immigrant children, possibly through a quantity-quality trade-off. Third, we show …

in the share of immigrant children between different grade levels within schools is exploited to identify the impact of … immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the …

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …