.41). There is substantial spatial heterogeneity across regions, Latin America and Caribbean with the highest (0.65) and Europe … and Cappellari (2019) to estimate the share of sibling correlation due to intergenerational transmission. We find that … the estimated share much larger. In our sample of countries, on average 74 percent of sibling correlation can be …

strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … investing in their children's test-taking abilities and improving their access to selective tertiary programs; and employers not …

children of urban college educated fathers, but not in rural areas. Theoretical insights help understand the mechanisms …

persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's educationbecause of credit market imperfections. Parents may … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. Inurban China, and urban and …

parents to their children. Attempts to empirically measure the strength of this transmission relied so far on the cross …-sectional regression of the trust of children on the contemporaneous trust of their parents. We introduce a new identification strategy … which hinges on a panel of parents and their children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Our results show that: 1 …

explain the underinvestment of parents in their children's human capital. We first incorporate these two potential mechanisms …