This paper examines the causal effect of parental schooling on children’s schooling using a large sample of adoptees from Taiwan. Using birth-parents’ education to help control for selective placement of children with adoptive parents, we find that adoptees raised with more highly educated...

Based on a Taiwanese national population dataset covering the period from 1998 to 2002, we find a counter-cyclical pattern of separations and employer-to-employer transitions. The cyclical adjustments of the workforce are driven mainly by fluctuations in the hiring of young workers and by...