target children at risk of not maximising their educational potential, the estimates are of interest. Contrary to recent … evidence, we find a positive effect of both parents education on their children?s schooling achievements when focusing on … natural parents only. Step parents have no or a negative impact on children?s education. In most cases, the endogeneity of …

We study the intergenerational effects of parents' education on their children's educational outcomes. The endogeneity … Parents and Children - a rich cohort dataset of children born in the early 1990s in Avon, England - allows us to examine the …. We find that increasing parental education has a positive causal effect on children's outcomes that is evident at age 4 …

outcomes of their children. Thanks to a data set drawn from Swedish population registers with detailed information on … mother?s or father?s education raises children?s education by about 0.1 year. Our estimated income elasticities are around 0.1. …

the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of their children from the German Socio …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …

the role of parental influences on occupational choice by testing whether the children of teachers are disproportionately …. Overall, children whose mothers are teachers are 9 percentage points (or more than two times) more likely to enter teaching … than the children of non-teacher mothers. This rate of occupational transmission is significantly larger than for several …