selection into college might also drive the relationship between college education and geographic mobility. We explore this …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as college …

' education or with other indicators of their parents' socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is … researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and family background …

We analyze the intergenerational education mobility of Canadian men and women born to immigrants. A detailed portrait … education has not changed across the birth cohorts of the post-war period. …

' education on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother …'s education has a small positive effect. Tracking the work experience of parents during offspring childhood, we find no support …

education. Using a two-sample instrumental variables approach, I estimate two measures of intergenerational economic persistence …