comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

We use 1940 Census data to study the intergenerational transmission of human capital for children born in the 1920s and … attainment between parents and children, we document lower average mobility rates for blacks than whites, but wide variation … across states and counties for both races. We show that schooling choices of white children were highly responsive to the …

-functioning formal social security system. Parents raise their children and depend on them for support when they reach an advanced age …. The decrease in the number of children prompted by the OCP resulted in parents investing more in their children … moderate estimates. The output gain comes from a greatly increased educational investment driven by fewer children (11.4 years …

the age ranges that best predict important human capital outcomes of children. The predictive power of parental resources …

sample of 3,500 Kenyan 3-8 year olds. Parents with additional exposure to childhood deworming have children with improved … units higher among treated parents' school-age children, only prior to school closures. Findings are interpreted through a …

This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill … accumulation, permanently lowering children's skill levels. To the extent that making up for cognitive skill losses during …

child's human capital? Most parents whose children receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits overestimate the … likelihood that their child will receive SSI benefits in adulthood. Reducing parents' expectations that children will receive … benefits in adulthood does not increase investments in children's human capital. This zero effect is precisely estimated …

the causal impact of parental housing wealth during different childhood periods on children's long-run wealth accumulation … during early-childhood is transmitted to children's overall and housing wealth in adulthood, respectively. The corresponding … increases in adult children's home ownership, educational attainment, and earnings. However, earnings and education can explain …

show that a policy targeting additional health resources for the young children of adults diagnosed with mental health …