comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … from a novel IV estimation that isolates variation in parent skill advantages due to their teacher and classroom peer … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … skills. The data also permit novel IV estimation that isolates variation in parental cognitive skills due to school and peer … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

-effects estimation exploiting within-country between-subject variation in teacher skills. A series of robustness and placebo tests …