children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children …

device for improving the human capital of the children and grandchildren of migrants as measured by their education. In this … migration by taking into account the correct counter-factual - the generational education gains that would have taken place if …

income, and to calculate certainty equivalent lifetime income at different levels of education. We find that university … education is associated with about a half a million euro increase in discounted lifetime disposable income compared to … with only moderately higher lifetime income compared to compulsory education, and the entire difference is due to …

market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We demonstrate that the same genetic score that predicts education … is also associated with higher wages, but only among individuals with a college education. Moreover, the genetic gradient …

We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by …