income and maternal education. We find that mental health conditions, and especially ADHD, have large negative effects on … future test scores and schooling attainment, regardless of family income and maternal education …

order has a significant and large effect on children's education; children born later in the family obtain less education …

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 …

We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …