find substantial transmission of patience from parents to children, which is insensitive to the inclusion of comprehensive … transmission with respect to two theoretically important but distinct dimensions of socialization through which parents can … parents, authoritarian and permissive parents transmit patience to their offspring. Meanwhile, parental involvement is not an …

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 …

level of education that an individual rises to is linked to the education level(s) of her/his parents. This note serves as … an alert to researchers undertaking empirical investigation into how the parents' education should be considered with … regard to the child's. Using Portuguese data we conclude that the parents should be viewed as a unit (i.e. as a couple), and …

We use New Zealand school board of trustees data to examine whether schools where parents have high rates of …