How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate …, importantly, do not generate work disincentive effects. The pattern of results is most consistent with the idea that parents …

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 …'s education has a small positive effect. Tracking the work experience of parents during offspring childhood, we find no support …

This paper examines the effect of parents' social skills on children's sociability, using the U.S. National … Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). This survey, like some other national surveys, lacks detailed information on parents …; to remedy this deficiency, we construct a measure of parents' "sociability" skills based on their occupational …

detailed work and fertility histories from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to estimate the effect of parents' job …

Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation …

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …