children's performance only through parents. We find that one additional score point in the origin country performance in math …In this study, we provide evidence that parents' beliefs about the value of math, in terms of successful employment …, have a positive impact on children's math scores. This result is robust to the reverse causality issue that characterizes …

This paper examines the effect of parents' social skills on children's sociability, using the U.S. National … characteristics from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). The sociability relationship varies across parents and children by … Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). This survey, like some other national surveys, lacks detailed information on parents …

. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …

parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents …We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents … respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on …

When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … changes to the family's budget constraint on parents' working hours. Labor supply is theoretically expected to increase for … parents who used to spend time taking care of their children, but to decrease for fulltime working parents because of an …

motivation, which assess beliefs about math importance for the job market, and student math anxiety. The presence of one family …

We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two … channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by affecting the child's field of study choices and … decreases the likelihood of the child choosing the father's field of study or finding employment in the father's plant. Children …

neighbourhood careers of children once they have left the parental home.We use a quasi-experimental family design exploiting sibling … disadvantage (socio-economic position) and contextual disadvantage (environmental context in which children grow up). The objective … synthetic pairs but the difference gets smaller with time, indicating a quicker attenuation of the family effect on residential …

population of households whose children attend public schools in Florida. Girls growing up in a boy-biased family score 3 … those of their children, supporting the hypothesis that preferences transmitted through the family impact children behavior …We study the correlation between parental gender attitudes and the performance in mathematics of girls using two …