between children of rich and poor parents remain as high in Nordic countries as elsewhere in Europe. One explanation for this … investments in children contribute to a levelled playing field and promote social mobility. However, gaps in learning outcomes … paradox is that the equalizing impacts of public investments are undone by parental investments in children of rich and poor …

, 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 …

is to some extent countered by an increase in the share receiving unemployment insurance benefits, indicating that …

about parents and children. We estimate the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment and earning capacity … with critical variations due to labour market conditions. At the time of transition around 1990 children's educational …

children's social environment. Children become more likely to attend high-status private schools and colleges, and to live near …

of the influence of family on children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as confirmed by decomposition analyses and …

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. …