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 …

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

, 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 …

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 …

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …

We study the impact on children of increasing maternity leave benefits using a reform that increased paid and unpaid … 30. The effect is especially large for children of those mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of …

We estimate the causal effect of parents' unemployment on unemployment among their children in their own adulthood. We … of the adult child by 1 to 2%. The greatest effects are observed for unmarried parents, young children, children of low … education, income, and job matching by parents …

change parents' resources and restrictions have causal effects on their children …In every society for which we have data, people's educational achievement is positively correlated with their parents …' education or with other indicators of their parents' socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is …