We investigate the relationship between early school-leaving and parental education and paternal income using UK Labour … Force Survey data. OLS estimation reveals modest effects of income, stronger effects of maternal education relative to … and income, the maternal education effect disappears, while paternal education remains significant but only for daughters …

Little is currently known about the effects of shocks to parental health on the allocation of children’s time between … health shocks on the amount of children’s time spent in work, leisure and education. One key contribution of the paper is … other types of child work, such as light domestic chores. We find that paternal illness increases the time spent in income …

workers. Parents, however, may experience added risk if their children experience adverse labor market shocks. Prior research … has shown that parents support their children financially through an unemployment spell. In this paper, we also provide … consumption, income, or savings behavior. With longitudinal data on mothers and children from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics …

chooses a science major and on his or her cumulative GPA. Conversely, students who attend campuses with stronger peers in the … sciences are less likely to graduate with a science degree. Weaker, non-minority students typically react to stronger peers in …

better at graduating more-prepared students while other institutions are better at graduating less-prepared students and that … 209 led to a more efficient sorting of minority students, explaining 18% of the graduation rate increase in our preferred … specification. Further, there appears to have been behavioral responses to Prop 209, by universities and/or students, that explain …

public high school students, so that they can attend technical and vocational education courses free of charge. We use a …

than teacher assignment for student achievement and also play a substantial role in the time students spend on homework …